Democratize vs Undemocratize - What's the difference?
democratize | undemocratize | Related terms |
To make not democratic, or less democratic
*{{quote-book, 1865, Thomas Goodwin, The Natural History of Secession, page=73, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=bcBHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA73
, passage=But there is still a very wide difference between the willing and persistent, and the accidental and unwilling, holding of slaves, in respect to the influence which slave-holding exerts to undemocratize the master.}}
*{{quote-book, 1931, Heinrich Ewald Buchholtz, Fads and fallacies in present-day education, page=149, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=UMqYmaLZDJoC&pg=PA149
, passage=because of the various attempts to undemocratize the government. }}
*{{quote-journal, 2004, date=September, The secret to making NCLB work? More bureaucrats, Phi Delta Kappan
, passage=CEOs and American big business have blanketed United States public education officials with their influence and, as Emery and Ohanian prove, their fifteen-year drive to undemocratize public education has yielded a many-tentacled private-public monster.}}
Undemocratize is a related term of democratize.
As verbs the difference between democratize and undemocratize
is that democratize is to make democratic while undemocratize is to make not democratic, or less democratic.undemocratize
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Alternative forms
*undemocratise (Commonwealth)Verb
(undemocratiz)citation