Citations:democrazy

Noun: "a democratic system or state considered to be inauthentic or inherently flawed; democracy that has descended into corruption, injustice, or absurdity"

 * 1924 — "Abolishing the Yellow Streak", The Living Age, Volume 320:
 * The snob-literati in China mistook for the real democracy which, since the break-up of the Feudal System, is in process of evolution in Europe and America, the democrazy of professional propagandists and yellow journalists.
 * 1946 — "Jap War Criminals", Life, 27 May 1946 (in image caption):
 * He is laid out on an Army cot and hospitalized. "America is democrazy," he yelled, but two weeks later psychiatrists agreed it was Okawa who was crazy.
 * 1984 — "Democrazy", Frontline, Volume 5:
 * One-stupid-man-one-stupid-vote is not democracy; it is democrazy. Workable democracy must depend on a well informed electorate, otherwise it is wide open to abuse by those who wish to exploit rather than serve.
 * 1985 — Amaechi Nzekwe, A Killer on the Loose, Fourth Dimension (1985), ISBN 9789781562037, page 51:
 * You have given the clue on how democracy is going to be saved in Nigeria, that is, if they haven't got the intention of changing democracy into democrazy.
 * 1986 — Arthur Nzeribe, Nigeria: The Turning Point, Fourth Dimension (1986), ISBN 9789781562297, page 12:
 * This is crucial if we recognise that the crux of the democratic stateform is the constitutional right of the people to influence and determine how they are governed; how their representatives are chosen, and how that process can be conducted at intervals without fraudulent interference with the right of the people, without turning democracy into democrazy; into a chaotic and unruly form of government.
 * 1993 — Abraham Rodriguez, Spidertown, Penguin Books (1994), ISBN 9780140238389, page 70:
 * It was the whole American Dream he was promoting. It was freedom and democrazy and money.
 * 2000 — Robert Flynn & Dan Klepper, The Devil's Tiger, TCU Press (2000), ISBN 0875652247, page 143:
 * Then democracy had come — democrazy — Andrei had called it. What had happened to her country?
 * 2001 — Enrique Zobel, "A Matter of Conscience", BusinessWorld, 13 June 2001:
 * "We have a democrazy not a democracy. Democracy is a numbers game and if your electorate can be fooled because they are ignorant, then the game goes to the cheaters and the rabblerousers."
 * 2012 — Steve Erickson, These Dreams of You, Europa Editions (2012), ISBN 9781609459062, page 261:
 * Retreating to the edges of staff meetings where he lies on a couch saying nothing as some point of strategy is hashed over, he ends arguments with decisions so succinct and raging ("Indiana is essential, we need to not just win there but crush) that Jasmine can only be mystified by the method and math of democrazy that she's come to spell with a z.