Anocracy
Anocracy describes a form of government in which the balance of power is unclear. The term is used in the Polity IV scale as an intermediate form between democracy and autocracy .
"The anocratic state," Gurr wrote in a note, "has minimal functions, political competition defying institutionalization, and its executive leadership is constantly threatened by rival leaders."
criticism
The Polity IV scale, which is decisive for the definition of the term, is accused of focusing too much on violent events and political unrest to classify regimes. The creation of the word anocracy as a play on words with the concept of anonymity is also criticized, since citizens are mostly known who actually exercises power.
literature
- Sven Chojnacki: Democracies and War: The Conflict Behavior of Democratic States in the International System, 1946–2001 . 2003.
- Cristina Bodea: Natural Resources, Weak States and Civil War: Can Rents Stabilize Coup Prone Regimes? The World Bank (English).
Individual evidence
- ^ MG Marshall: Polity IV individual country regime trends 1946–2013 . Center for Systemic Peace, New Vienna 2013, systemicpeace.org
- ↑ Ted Robert Gurr: Persistence and Change in Political Systems, 1800–1971 . In: American Political Science Review 68 , December 4, 1974, p. 1487. Quoted from: David C. Jordan: Definition of Democracy . In: Dirty Money and Democracies: Drug Politics / II (= studies of contemporary issues ). tape 35 , 2001 ( studien-von-zeitfragen.net ).
- ↑ James Raymond Vreeland: The Effect of Political Regime on Civil War: Unpacking Anocracy . In: Journal of Conflict Resolution . tape 52 , no. 3 , 2008, p. 401-425 , doi : 10.1177 / 0022002708315594 .
- ^ Jürgen Hartmann: Democracy and Autocracy in Comparative Democracy Research . Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-07478-4 .