Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Government or rule by the state alone, uncontrolled by ecclesiastical power.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Government by the state, or by political power, in distinction from government by ecclesiastical power.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
government by thestate , or bypolitical power in distinction fromecclesiastical power
Etymologies
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state + -cracy, as in democracy.
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Examples
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Whenever the voters grow weary of the plutocracy, they're offered the alleged alternative of an FDR or JFK; whenever they grow weary of the statocracy, they're offered the alleged alternative of a Reagan or Thatcher.
CounterPunch 2010
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"Corporate liberalism functions via a façade of opposition between a purportedly progressive statocracy and a purportedly pro-market plutocracy.
CounterPunch 2010
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