"democratisation" meaning in English

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          "text": "Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.",
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          "text": "Five years later, when the institute published its first dataset of global democracy, its experts realised that things were rapidly going in the wrong direction. “Now, all of us researching democratisation have become researchers on autocratisation,” Lindberg says.",
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