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From Schott's Original Miscellany:
Systems of Government:
rule by is called
all equally....................pantisocracy
armed forces...................militocracy
bishops........................exarchy
civil servants.................bureaucracy
clerics........................ecclesiarchy
elderly........................gerontocracy
eldest male....................patriarchy
judges.........................kritarchy
men............................andocracy
nobility.......................aristocracy
one individual.................autocracy
the people.....................democracy
the poor.......................ptochocracy
pope...........................paparchy
propertied class...............timocracy
religious law..................theocracy
saints.........................hagiarchy
slaves.........................doulocracy
a small cabal..................oligarchy
technical experts..............technocracy
wealthy........................plutocracy
women..........................gynarchy
the worst possible.............kakistocracy
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oh, the potential... 
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I wonder if there's any logic behind the -archies vs the -cracies.
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I wonder if there's any logic behind the -archies vs the -cracies. Me too.
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I suppose the fun challenge might be to come up with examples of these systems.
I claim Qutb-ud-din Aibak's rule (in Delhi, many centuries ago) as a doulocracy.
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where could you possibly find an example of a kakistocracy?!
-ron (yes, that was a rhetorical question) obvious
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At first glance rule by slaves or by the poor both sound like oxymoronocracies. But I suppose it would be difficult to propose a system that hadn't been tried somewhere/when.
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Not to wander off the subject or anything  , but that sounds like a perfect Gilbert & Sullivan word.
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re:--At first glance rule by slaves or by the poor both sound like oxymoronocracies
in personal relationsships, its called terrony of the weak.
societies that had slaves, but realize the social and political problems with them sometimes find they can't get rid of slavery as easily as they thought. and the slaves, see slavery as a sort of welfare system.
the 'ruling class' could come done hard, adn abuse the slaves, but the society has moved into a position were slavery is accepted, but cruelty to slaves is not tollerated.. so when the slave do nothing, (but demand their owners feed them, house them, and cloth them..)
--its something akin to the reputation civil service unions have... Years ago, CS Unions got the 'right' to short hours in the summer, when most city offices were not air conditioned.. Now, they have the right to AC and they still have the right to 'summer hours'-- the unions are strong, and its hard to fight them on these sort of abuses.. (because now, all summer employees think they are entitled to short summer hours!--(short hours are leave at 4:30-get paid as if you worked to 5PM)
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