Appendix:Forms of government
A
edit- acracy (lack of rule)
- adhocracy
- albocracy (white)
- anarchy
- androcracy (male dominance in the traditional political arena)
- anemocracy
- angelocracy (rule by angels)
- anocracy
- antarchy
- argentocracy (rule or paramount influence of money)
- aristarchy
- aristocracy (rule by birth)
- arithmocracy (rule by the numerical majority of the population [1])
- autarchy
- autocracy
B
edit- barbarocracy
- beerocracy (government by the brewing and beer-selling interests)
- biarchy
- binarchy
- bureaucracy
C
edit- cannonarchy (rule by cannon)
- capelocracy
- chiliarchy
- chirocracy
- chromatocracy
- chrysoaristocracy
- chrysocracy
- corpocracy
- cosmarchy
- cottonocracy (A political system which rests on cotton economy)
- cryptarchy
D
edit- decadarchy
- decarchy (rule by ten people)
- demarchy
- democracy
- demonarchy (rule by demons used in the context of racial oppression)
- demonocracy
- despotism
- despotocracy
- diabolocracy
- diarchy
- dictatorship
- dinarchy
- dodecarchy
- doulocracy
- duarchy
- dulocracy
- dyarchy
E
editF
editG
edit- gerontocracy
- gunarchy
- gymnasiarchy (gymnasiarch: in ancient Greece a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities)
- gynaecocracy
- gynarchy
- gynocracy
H
edit- hagiarchy (Government by holy people such as priests, also called hagiocracy)
- hagiocracy (Government by holy people such as priests, also called hagiarchy)
- hamarchy
- hecatarchy
- hecatontarchy
- hendecarchy
- heptarchy (rule by seven people)
- heroarchy (Government by heroes)
- hetaerocracy
- heterarchy
- hierarchy
- hierocracy
- hipparchy
- hoplarchy
- hyperanarchy
- hyperarchy
I
editJ
edit- jesuitocracy (rule by Jesuits)
- juntocracy
K
edit- kakistocracy (government by the worst)
- kleptocracy (government by thieves)
- kritarchy (government by judges)
- kratocracy
L
editM
edit- matriarchy
- meritocracy
- merocracy
- mesocracy
- metrocracy
- millionocracy (rule by the wealthy)
- millocracy
- mobocracy
- monarchy
- moneyocracy
- monocracy
- myriarchy
N
editO
editP
edit- paedarchy
- paedocracy (government by children)
- panarchy
- pantarchy (an anarchistic perfect state, government by all the people;world government)
- pantisocracy
- paparchy
- papyrocracy (rule by papers compare with bureaucracy)
- parsonarchy (rule by priests)
- partocracy
- partyarchy
- patriarchy
- pedantocracy
- pentarchy (government by five persons)
- phallocracy (power of the phallus, a male-dominated society that denigrates the female role in reproduction)
- philosophocracy
- phylarchy
- physiocracy (rule of nature)
- phobiocracy (rule by fear)
- pigmentocracy
- plantocracy
- plousiocracy (rule by the wealthy plutocracy)
- plutarchy
- plutocracy
- polarchy (usage in printed works appears to be rare)
- policeocracy (government by police, usage of term in printed works appears to be rare)
- pollarchy
- polyarchy
- polycracy
- popocracy
- pornocracy
- prophetocracy
- psephocracy (rule by ballot)
- ptochocracy (government by paupers)
- punditocracy
Q
editR
editS
edit- septarchy (rule by seven people but see also heptarchy)
- shopocracy
- slavocracy (a social system in which the central class relationship is that between master and slave)
- snobocracy
- sociocracy
- squarsonocracy
- squatterarchy (squatters collectively)
- squattocracy
- squirearchy
- squirocracy
- statocracy
- stratarchy
- stratocracy
- strumpetocracy (rule by strumpets)
- synarchy
T
edit- technocracy
- tetradarchy (Rule by four people, appears to be rarely used in printed works)
- tetrarchy
- thalassiarchy (the office of an admiral)
- thalassocracy
- thearchy
- theatrocracy
- theocracy
- timarchy (a term used by Plato to describe 'the ambitious society')
- timocracy
- triarchy
- tritarchy
- tritheocracy (rule by three deities, often in the Christian context of the Trinity)
W
edit- Whiggarchy (rule by Whigs, usually capitalized)
X
edit- xenocracy (foreign rule)