The system, practice, or business of engaging in boroughmongering; corrupt dealings in borough politics and administration.
From 'boroughmonger' plus the suffix '-y' (forming nouns describing conditions or practices). This term characterizes the broader institutional corruption of a political system.
The phenomenon of boroughmongery gave us the phrase 'pocket boroughs'—constituencies owned by wealthy families like personal property, where voters were literally told how to vote by their landlords, creating a grotesque parody of democracy.
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