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词汇 kleptocracy
释义 kleptocracy
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌklepˈtɒk.rə.si/ us /ˌklepˈtɑː.krə.si/
a society whose leaders make themselves rich and powerful by stealing from the rest of the people: 盗贼统治(的社会)
This was not a democracy; it was a kleptocracy.这不是民主,这是盗贼统治。
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Examples of kleptocracy


kleptocracy
One consequence is an increase in exploitation or exclusion, albeit akin to kleptocracy.
We contrast these circumstances with institutional arrangements in which the incentives facing the leader are compatible with corruption, kleptocracy and other forms of inefficient governance.
Kleptocracy can take different forms depending on the degree to which it is centralised.
This is very hard to achieve when many of the governments are socialist or quasi-socialist or simply kleptocracies.
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The country is largely run by a kleptocracy.
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It was a kleptocracy which was ripping millions of rupees away from the public exchequer.
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I am afraid that it is very obvious where that money is going; it is being picked from the pockets of the poor by the kleptocracy that runs that country.
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A state of unrestrained political corruption is known as a kleptocracy, literally meaning rule by thieves.
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Governments with strong tendencies towards kleptocracy can undermine food security even when harvests are good.
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A state where bribery has become a way of life is a kleptocracy.
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Kleptocracy in government often vitiates prospects of foreign investment and drastically weakens the domestic market and cross-border trade.
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The form of government in such countries is often authoritarian in nature, and may comprise a dictatorship, warlordism, or a kleptocracy.
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Demands for a second independence from kleptocracy and political infighting in the capital grew.
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Some commentators believe that this practice might give rise to a kleptocracy as a deviant mutation of a democracy if left unchecked.
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Mobutu's rule earned a reputation as one of the world's foremost examples of kleptocracy and nepotism.
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