I suppose the unfamiliarity of the term in English shouldn't be too surprising if it's a translation. Looks like the Wikipedia entry was created 2023, the oldest citation in its list is 2010.
On a marginally lighter note, I wonder if there are any connections to the "Managed Democracy" of the Helldivers games, where it is used as a hyper-normalized euphemism by a brutal regime.
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