PARTOCRACY

PRONUNCIATION: (par-TOK-ruh-see)

MEANING: noun: Government or rule by a single political party.

ETYMOLOGY: From party, from Old French partie, from Latin partire (to divide, share) + Greek -cracy (rule). Probably modeled after Russian partokratija. Earliest documented use: 1966.
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PORTOCRACY - a kind of government that can be easily relocated to someplace else

PASTOCRACY - government blindly subservient to historical precedent

BARTOCRACY - government by a mischievous, rebellious, misunderstood, disruptive and "potentially dangerous" perennial 10-year-old