Concept cluster: Philosophy > Governance types
adj
(business, organizational theory, rare) Relating to an adhocracy; adhocratic.
adj
Relating to albinocracy.
adj
Relating to algocracy.
n
The influence of algorithms on the political opinion of the general public. For example by showing different internet search results and social media content to different people, creating filter bubbles.
adj
Relating to androcracy.
n
government or rule by angels
adj
Of or related to aristarchy.
n
A proponent of aristocracy; an advocate of aristocratic government.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or favouring, an aristocracy
adj
Relating to aristodemocracy
adj
Relating to arithmocracy.
n
(derogatory, education) The situation where students involved in sports are treated better than those who are not.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or marked by autarchy; autocratic.
adj
Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government.
adj
Of or relating to bellicism, a bellicist, bellicists, advocating war, who is war-centered or war-oriented.
n
(derogatory) A diffuse bureaucratic structure that prevents the organization from getting work done effectively.
n
(US, politics) The domination of a political party by a single, powerful person (the boss)
n
(politics, derogatory) The constellation of technocrats, columnists, pundits, university professors, public intellectuals, business lobbyists and other powerful groups who benefit from the political status quo and use their position to defend and support it.
n
An advocate of clericalism
adj
Of or relating to compatriots.
adj
Relating to political or organisational power.
adj
Of, or relating to cronyism.
n
a secret government or rulership
adj
Of or pertaining to czarocracy.
n
(politics) A government of ten people, especially (historical) various Greek councils of ten men
adj
Relating to demarchy.
adj
Of or relating to a despotocracy.
adj
of or pertaining to a diarchy.
n
Alternative form of dirigiste [An advocate or practitioner of dirigisme.]
n
A government of twelve people.
adj
Exhibiting or relating to dominionism.
n
(archaic or historical) A political dynamiter.
n
One who believes that a society or community should be ruled by an elite.
n
The belief that a society or system should be run by an elite.
adj
Relating to epistocracy.
n
A person involved with the running of an ethnocracy.
adj
Gerontocratic.
n
A small political group, especially of an extremist faction.
adj
Of or relating to hagiocracy.
adj
Of or pertaining to heterarchy
n
A system of organization where the elements of the organization are unranked (non-hierarchical) or where they possess the potential to be ranked a number of different ways.
adj
Of or relating to heteropatriarchy.
adj
Pertaining to a hierarchy.
n
The process or policy of organising as a hierarchy.
n
The principles or authority of a hierarchy.
adj
Of or relating to a hierocracy
n
Eggcorn of hierarchy.
n
Alternative letter-case form of holacracy [(business, often capitalized) A decentralised system of organizational governance with autonomous and symbiotic teams.]
adj
Pertaining to, or characterized by, idiocracy.
n
An organization whose operation is based on the flow of information.
adj
Being or pertaining to an infocracy.
adj
Of or relating to isocracy.
n
One who is jockocratic.
adj
(rare) Of or relating to kraterocracy.
adj
(rare) Of or relating to kratocracy.
n
Alternative form of labourism [Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.]
adj
Relating to the sphere of governance, with connotations of deference or even awe on the part of the governed or megalomania on the part of the governing.
n
A member of the corrupt elite in a lootocracy.
adj
Of or relating to lootocracy.
adj
Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.
n
The political doctrine or belief held by the United States of America, particularly during its expansion, that the nation was destined to expand toward the west.
adj
Relating to, or characteristic of, McCarthyism.
n
A type of society where wealth, income, and social status are assigned through competition.
n
A person who has authority allegedly based on ability.
adj
Relating to a millocracy.
adj
Minarchic
adj
Of or pertaining to mobocracy.
adj
Of or pertaining to monarchism
adj
Relating to moneyocracy.
n
(now rare) Nationalism or patriotism.
adj
Of or relating to negarchy.
n
Alternative form of oecist [(Ancient Greece) A founder of a colony.]
adj
(dated) Oligarchic, oligarchical.
n
(historical, politics) A coalition or "partisan camp" in the Ancient Greek political system.
n
One who exhibits parochialism.
n
Somebody who favors the peasants over others.
n
Government by pedants.
n
A proponent of pedantocracy.
adj
Promoting or relating to pedantocracy.
n
(politics) Government by five persons.
adj
(slang, rare) plutocratic
adj
Of or relating to the politburo.
n
The practice of polyarchy
adj
relating to or pertaining to pornocracy
n
A social elite.
n
(geopolitics) A disposition in geopolitical relations that supports hegemonic influence
adj
Exhibiting or relating to protectionism.
n
mesocratic
adj
Of or relating to psephocracy.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or resembling a punditocracy
n
Alternative form of rigorist [Someone who takes the strictest interpretation of a law, religious injunction etc.]
n
A group following a specific ideal or a leader.
n
A member of a particular sect, school of thought or practice, party, or profession; a sectarian.
adj
Of or pertaining to a securocracy.
adj
Of or relating to squattocracy.
n
The process by which a governing body remains static or self-perpetuating due to internal conflict.
n
A type of systemic political corruption in which a small number of private businesses influence government policy to their own advantage.
adj
Pertaining to statism.
adj
Of or relating to statocracy, or government by the state.
adj
Of or relating to stratarchy.
adj
Relating to stratocracy.
adj
Pertaining to a governing set of rules or goals.
adj
Of or pertaining to thalassocracy.
adj
Relating to thanatocracy.
n
Rule by spectators in a theater.
adj
Relating to theatrocracy.
adj
Belonging to, or constituted by, timocracy.
n
(obsolete, rare, in the historical of Cambridge University, capitalised when used as a title) A Bachelor of Arts appointed to make satirical strictures in humorous dispute with the candidates at a degree-awarding ceremony; tripos, prevaricator.
adj
Of or relating to tsarism.
n
(archaic) A votary.
adj
(rare) Relating to xerocracy.

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