Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A government by many, whether by a privileged class (aristocracy) or by the people at large (democracy); any government by several rulers.
- noun The character or condition of being polyarch. See
polyarck .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A government by many persons, of whatever order or class.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
government by many persons, of whatever order or class.
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Examples
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He uses the term polyarchy to refer to societies in which there exists a certain set of institutions and procedures which are perceived as leading to such democracy.
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It is rather, I believe, taking us to a self-styled "polyarchy," a system with more than one power center, and even a crude system of "checks and balances."
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It is rather, I believe, taking us to a self-styled "polyarchy," a system with more than one power center, and even a crude system of "checks and balances."
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Examining their key tenets reveals an over-reliance on institution-building (such as party recruitment or policy-research projects) - the infrastructure of polyarchy.
Jeff Ballinger: GOP's Jekyll and Hyde Foreign Policy- Wolfowitz' Years in Jakarta
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Yet tyranny is wont to occur not less but more frequently on the basis of a polyarchy than on the basis of a monarchy.
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[37] Group government [polyarchy] most frequently breeds dissension.
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Monarchy is therefore to be preferred to polyarchy, although either form of government might become dangerous.
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This, of course, would be the excess of tyranny and the worst wickedness in government, as has been shown above.a The dangers, then, arising from a polyarchy are more to be guarded against than those arising from a monarchy.
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There has hardly ever been a polyarchy that did not end in tyranny.
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Now, considerable dangers to the multitude follow more frequently from polyarchy than from monarchy.
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