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lottocracy en · NOUN

Etymology

From lotto + -cracy.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) Demarchy.
    • Coined by Australian philosopher John Burnheim, a demarchy, or lottocracy, is a form of government in which the state is governed by randomly selected decision makers who have been selected from a pool of eligible citizens. 2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo:

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