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* tryanny
* tryanny
* democracy
* democracy
=== Other terms ===
* Kleptocracy
* Kakistocracy
** from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy| Wikipedia]]
<pre>American poet James Russell Lowell used the term in 1877, in a letter to Joel Benton, writing, "What fills me with doubt and dismay is the degradation of the moral tone. Is it or is it not a result of Democracy? Is ours a 'government of the people by the people for the people,' or a Kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?"</pre>
* Corporatocracy
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