ochlocracy

IPA: ˈɑkɫˈɑkrʌsi

Examples of "ochlocracy" in Sentences

The latter is rightly called "ochlocracy" -- mob rule.
This is called grandstanding for the sake of ochlocracy.
Sadly, the country is terrorized and under control of ochlocracy.
Sadly, the country is terrorized and under control of ochlocracy. '
There can be ochlocracy in bicameral systems & democracy in unicameral ones. urgs Says:
If we lived in a mobocracy (also known as ochlocracy) we would vote and the majority would rule on every little issue.
Democratic process in pre-enlightenment society inevitably produces the worst kind of tyranny: tyranny of the fanatical mob what Plato named “ochlocracy”.
a democracy that departed from the civil and political equality which was its supposed basis, and gave ascendancy to a faction, was sometimes designated by the term ochlocracy, or the dominion of the rabble.
"ochlocracy," or government by the mob, in which the numbers have no real share: an oligarchy of the fiercest, the noisiest, the rashest, and the most shameless, which is surely swallowed up either by a despotism, as in
According to Polybius, the kyklos, or political cycle, rotates through three forms of government — democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy — and the degenerate forms of each of those three — ochlocracy, oligarchy, and tyranny: