A system of government where power is shared between two or more groups, institutions, or regions.
From the prefix 'co-' (meaning 'together') combined with 'government,' following a modern English pattern of creating partnership words.
In countries like Belgium and Switzerland, different linguistic or cultural groups practice 'cogovernment,' where decisions require consensus, which sounds slow but actually prevents majority groups from trampling minorities.
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