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* democracy
* democracy


=== Other terms ===
=== Modern variations of Greek terms ===
* Kleptocracy  
* Kleptocracy = rule by the corrupt
* Kakistocracy
** from the Greek "kléptō" for "I steal"
** from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy| Wikipedia]]
** ex. "kelptomaiac" = one who steals impulsively
<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>
* Kakistocracy = rule by the worst
 
** from the Greek "kakistos" for "the worse"
* Corporatocracy
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<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?"
from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy| Wikipedia]]</pre>
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* Corporatocracy = rule by corporations
* Idiocracy = rule by idiots