juridico-political

English

Etymology

From juridico- +‎ political.

Adjective

juridico-political (not comparable)

  1. politicojudicial
    • 1979, Michel Foucault, translated by Alan Sheridan, Discipline and Punish, page 55:
      The public execution, then, has a juridico-political function. It is a ceremonial by which a momentarily injured sovereignty is reconstituted. It restores that sovereignty by manifesting it at its most spectacular.
    • 1997, Hent de Vries, Samuel Weber, Violence, Identity, and Self-determination, →ISBN, page 106:
      What happened in the camps so exceeds the juridical concept of crime that the specific juridico-political structure in which those events took place is often simply omitted from consideration.
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