SANTIAGO – In an influential 1997 essay, Fareed Zakaria coined the term “illiberal democracy” to describe those countries that hold elections (of varying fairness) to choose their leaders, yet restrict civil liberties and political freedom. At the time, such practices were common mostly in Asia and Africa, with a sizeable concentration of illiberal democracies among the ex-Soviet states.
圣地亚哥—在1997年的著名文章中，法利德·扎卡利亚（Fareed Zakaria）创造了“不自由民主”一词来形容用（公正度各异的）选举选择领导人、但限制公民自由和政治自由的国家。当时，这类行为在亚洲和非洲最为普遍，集中出现不自由民主的则是前苏联国家。