English Explanatory Dictionary

tandemocracy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Synonym of diarchy, especially involving alternation of offices in an allegedly democratic context.

Word forms

tandemocracy

Etymology

Blend of tandem + democracy or tandem + -ocracy, a calque of Russian тандемократия (tandemokratija) originally in reference to the office-trading of Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev.

Synonyms

diarchy
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