IDEOCRACY

PRONUNCIATION: (eye/i-dee-AH-kruh-see)

MEANING: noun:
1. Government according to the principles of a particular ideology.
2. A state or society governed in this way.

ETYMOLOGY: From ideo- (idea) + -cracy (rule). Earliest documented use: 1813.
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ADEOCRACY - government from Madison Avenue

IDOCRACY - government by primal desire

ILEOCRACY - government by gut reaction