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Meaning of "polyarchy" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD POLYARCHY

From poly- + -archy.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF POLYARCHY

ˈpɒlɪˌɑːkɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POLYARCHY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Polyarchy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POLYARCHY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Polyarchy

In modern political science, the term polyarchy was used by Robert Dahl to describe a form of government in which power is invested in multiple people. It takes form of neither dictatorship nor democracy. This form of government was first implemented in the United States and France and was gradually adopted by many other countries. According to Dahl, the fundamental democratic principle is “the continuing responsiveness of the government to the preferences of its citizens, considered as political equals” with unimpaired opportunities. A polyarchy is a state that has certain procedures that are necessary conditions for following the democratic principle. In semblance, the word polycracy describes the same form of government, although from a slightly different premise: A polycracy is a state ruled by more than one person, as opposed to monocracy. The word is derived from Greek poly which means "many" and kratos which means "rule" or "strength".

Definition of polyarchy in the English dictionary

The definition of polyarchy in the dictionary is a political system in which power is dispersed.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POLYARCHY

Abnaki · darkie · darky · endarchy · hagiarchy · hierarchy · holarchy · Iraqi · kaki · Kawasaki · khaki · matriarchy · Nagasaki · navarchy · patriarchy · saki · sparky · Starkey · triarchy · Yamasaki

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POLYARCHY

polyact · polyactinal · polyactine · polyadelphous · polyadic · polyalcohol · polyamide · polyamine · polyandrous · polyandry · polyantha · polyanthus · polyanthus narcissus · polyarch · polyarchies · polyarthritis · polyatomic · polyaxial · polyaxon · polyaxonic

WORDS THAT END LIKE POLYARCHY

absolute monarchy · anarchy · autarchy · chiliarchy · churchy · constitutional monarchy · diarchy · Dual Monarchy · eparchy · ethnarchy · heptarchy · heterarchy · limited monarchy · monarchy · nomarchy · oligarchy · phylarchy · squirarchy · starchy · tetrarchy · trierarchy

Synonyms and antonyms of polyarchy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «polyarchy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POLYARCHY

Find out the translation of polyarchy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of polyarchy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «polyarchy» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

多元政治
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

poliarquía
570 millions of speakers
en

English

polyarchy
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

polyarchy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

دولة التعدد
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

полиархия
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

poliarquia
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

বহুশাসনতন্ত্র
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

polyarchie
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Polyarchy
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Polyarchie
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

ポリアーキー
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

polyarchy
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Polyarchy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

polyarchy
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

polyarchy
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

बहुआयामी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

polyarchy
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

poliarchia
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

Poliarchia
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

поліархія
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

poliarhia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πολυαρχίαν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

polyarchy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

polyarki
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

polyarchy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of polyarchy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POLYARCHY»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of polyarchy
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about polyarchy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLYARCHY»

Discover the use of polyarchy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to polyarchy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, US Intervention, and ...
Promoting Polyarchy is an exciting, detailed and controversial work on the apparent change in US foreign policy from supporting dictatorships to promoting "democratic" regimes.
William I. Robinson, 1996
2
The Democracy Sourcebook
The seminal elaboration is Dahl's conception of polyarchy. which has two overt dimensions: opposition (organized contestation through regular, free, and fair elections) and participation (the right of virtually all adults to vote and contest for ...
Robert Alan Dahl, Ian Shapiro, José Antônio Cheibub, 2003
3
Politics, Economics, and Welfare
If this were the case, then of course merely to vote one party out of office would not represent a check to hierarchy, and the process might continue until polyarchy is undermined. That this is a possibility implicit in modern industrial society can ...
Robert Alan Dahl, Charles Edward Lindblom, 1953
4
Introducing Government: A Reader
The relation between polyarchy and the requirements of the democratic process are set out in Table 1 .3(1). Appraising polyarchy Typical of democrats who live in countries governed by authoritarian regimes is a fervent hope that their country ...
C. Ralph Young, 1993
5
People, Power, and Politics: An Introduction to Political ...
Polyarchy In 1971 Professor Robert A. Dahl published a short book entitled Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition.1* Dahl began by arguing that "a key characteristic of democracy is the continuing responsiveness of the government to the ...
John C. Donovan, Richard E. Morgan, Christian P. Potholm, 1993
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On Measuring Democracy: Its Consequences and Concomitants
Appendix B shows the Polyarchy Scale scores and their interpretations, along with a listing of the perfect scale types, approximately equivalent variants, and the anomalies. Implications for the Measurement of Polyarchy The most obvious ...
Alex Inkeles, 1991
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Democracy in Western and Postcommunist Countries: Twenty ...
"Polyarchy plus" (Baker, Koesel 2001) The conception of "polyarchy plus" is the attempt to solve the practical difficulties of using the analytic tools created on the basis of Coppedge's opera tionalization of Dahl's attributes of polyarchy.
Tadeusz Buksiński, 2009
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Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought
With some amplification they can be specified concretely enough, as research has shown. to permit independent observers to rank most countries according to the extent to which each of the institutions of polyarchy is present, in a realistic ...
Paul Barry Clarke, Joe Foweraker, 2003
9
Strong Parties and Lame Ducks: Presidential Partyarchy and ...
Polyarchy. and. Partyarchy. Definitions of democracy rarely mention political parties. In the fifth century B.c., when democracy was born, there were no political parties; even in the loose sense of factions of notables in a legislature, parties did  ...
Michael Coppedge, 1997
10
After Capitalism
Some years ago, Yale political scientists Robert Dahl and Charles Lindblom proposed to distinguish between democracy and polyarchy.2i A polyarchy is a system in which a broad-based electorate selects political leaders from competing ...
David Schweickart, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLYARCHY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term polyarchy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Political Risk, Regime Stability And Implications For Doing Business …
Therefore, there is need to strengthen institutions of justice, entrench rule of law, fortify competitive pluralism as against polyarchy, and deal ... «Daily Times Nigeria, Jul 15»
2
Democracy or economic development? — Sum Dek Joe
Allan, D., Robert (1971) Polyarchy; participation and opposition. New Haven: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1971. Diamond, L. (1989) ... «Malay Mail Online, Jun 15»
3
Building a healthy political opposition
IN his seminal work, Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition (1971), Robert Dahl proposed a new understanding of democracy typically ... «The Guardian Nigeria, Apr 15»
4
Global Capitalism and the Global Police State: Crisis of Humanity …
Among his many books are Promoting Polyarchy (1996), Transnational Conflicts (2003), A Theory of Global Capitalism (2004), Latin America ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Apr 15»
5
How do autocrats like Erdoğan survive?
In “Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition,” Professor Larry Diamond clearly explains the difference between the electoral democracy and ... «Today's Zaman, Apr 15»
6
Name That System and/or Work to Overthrow It
... “corporate-managed democracy” (Wolin again), imperial “polyarchy” (sociologist William I. Robinson's Marxian-Gramscian adaptation of the ... «teleSUR English, Apr 15»
7
The Mexican Crisis: Human Rights Violations, Corruption and …
At the federal level the political system that emerged from the 2000 election can be catalogued, formally and in broad strokes, as a polyarchy; ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Dec 14»
8
The Mexican Crisis
At the federal level the political system that emerged from the 2000 election can be catalogued, formally and in broad strokes, as a polyarchy; ... «NACLA, Nov 14»
9
The 10 secrets every parent should know
Dead on. Hahaha, "negotiated boundaries" too funny. Commenter: PolyArchy the Clown; Date and time: Thu Nov 06 22:16:01 UTC 2014 ... «The Age, Nov 14»
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RAU: On power in Zimbabwe
And, in this transition from polyarchy to a neo-patrimonial regime, power has become increasingly opaque. Visible power in present day ... «New Zimbabwe.com, Sep 14»
REFERENCE
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