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Dictatorship vs Ethnocracy - What's the difference?

dictatorship | ethnocracy |

As nouns the difference between dictatorship and ethnocracy

is that dictatorship is a type of government where absolute sovereignty is allotted to an individual or a small clique while ethnocracy is a form of government in which a particular ethnic group holds a disproportionate amount of government power.

dictatorship

English

(wikipedia dictatorship)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A type of government where absolute sovereignty is allotted to an individual or a small clique.
  • A government which exercises autocratic rule.

    • Derived terms

    * dictatorship of the majority

    Synonyms

    *autocracy

    ethnocracy

    English

    (wikipedia ethnocracy)

    Noun

    (ethnocracies)
  • A form of government in which a particular ethnic group holds a disproportionate amount of government power.
  • *{{quote-book, 2005, Paul Dresch, Monarchies and Nations citation
    • , passage=In this sense, ethnocracy as a socio-political regime is outcome of ethnonationalism, that brand of nationalism that views the nation as a "natural" and ethnically "pure" community, as opposed to its liberal conceptualisation as a community based on equal rights and duties.}}

    Related terms

    *ethnocratic