kratocracy
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krátos, “strength, might”) + -cracy.
Noun edit
kratocracy (plural kratocracies)
- (political science) A government established by the forceful or cunning seizure of power and maintained by strength.[1][2][3]
- 1950, Wm. Pepperell Montague, Great Visions of Philosophy: Varieties of Speculative Thought in the West from the Greeks to Bergson, page 109:
- […] as the cover for plutocracy is replaced by timocracy and by the one-man kratocracy which we call dictatorship.
- 2012, Cory Blad, Banu Koçer, Political Islam and State Legitimacy in Turkey: The Role of National Culture in Neoliberal State-Building in International Political Sociology, volume 6, page 36:
- To many outside observers, Turkey is a unique country that seems perpetually balancing on a steep precipice between kratocracy and democracy, between Islam and capitalism, or even more melodramatically, between East and West.
- In Praise of a Roman-American Rhapsody in 2013 (originally 1997), Francis Boni, A Life Song Between Two Worlds: Revised and Expanded, iUniverse LLC, page 37:
- For, without its feeling of compassion, a kratocracy, […]
Synonyms edit
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Derived terms edit
Translations edit
rule by the strong
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Dictionary of Philosophy
- ^ “Birth of Words: Kratocracy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2014 November 29 (last accessed), archived from the original on 22 September 2014
- ^ English Language and Usage
Further reading edit
kratocracy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
