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personocracy en · NOUN

Etymology

From person + -o- + -cracy.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A more participatory form of democracy, intended to care for every person and not just the majority.
    • The main characteristic of personocracy is that it "promotes the participation of all members in governmental decision[s]" while showing "the same concern for the individual members of our community as the Personalized System of Instruction shows for individual students". 2010, Hilke Kuhlman, Living Walden Two, page 154:
    • Personocracy, unlike democracy, cares for each and every person and not just for the majority. 1996, Bill Metcalf, William James Metcalf, Shared Visions, Shared Lives: Communal Living Around the Globe:

Translations (3)

es personocracia (Translations) · pt personocracia (Translations) · el προσωποκρατία (Translations)