psephocracy

IPA（発音記号）

/psɪˈfɒkɹəsi/

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不可算名詞

Government by ballot-elected representatives; representative democracy. Often contrasted with democracy, with which it is unfavourably compared for its lack of demotic participation in the political process outside of elections.

日本語の意味

選挙で選ばれた代表者による政府、すなわち代議制民主主義を意味します。 / 選挙以外の政治過程での一般市民の参加が限られている点から、伝統的な民主主義と対比される政府形態です。

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Many historians argue that the country's transition to a psephocracy after the reforms brought greater accountability to elected officials.

多くの歴史家は、その改革後にその国が選挙で選ばれた代表による統治へ移行したことが、選出された公務員の説明責任を高めたと主張している。

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意味（1）

Government by ballot-elected representatives; representative democracy. Often contrasted with democracy, with which it is unfavourably compared for its lack of demotic participation in the political process outside of elections.

How then did Britain […] become a democracy? […] It never did... What we do have is representative government, or the rule of the ballot-box, or (in one word) psephocracy. […] Psephocracy on the British model has been extended, thanks to the advice of British psephocrats, to a couple of dozen nations.

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