democratic deficit
noun
A perceived deficiency in the way a particular democratic government, institution, etc., functions in relation to the principles of democracy, especially with regard to a lack of accountability and control over the process of policy-making.
- Originally and chiefly in the context of the institutions and legislation of the European Union or its predecessors..
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in The Times.
- steerage way
- steer a middle course
- steer-by-wire
- steer clear of
- steerer
- steering
- steering column
- steering committee
- steering group
- steering wheel
- steer (or take) a middle course
- steersman
- steersmanship
- steer wrestler
- steer wrestling
- steeve
- steez
- steeze
- steezy
- Stefan–Boltzmann law
- Steffens, Lincoln
- steganography
- Stegner, Wallace
- stegosaur
- stegosaurus