Kakistocracy

Quick meaning: Kakistocracy is a noun meaning (political science) Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.

Meaning

(political science) Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.

Example Sentences

Thus, the problem was not whether corruption/power abuse was allowed, but how to keep a balance between uprightness and kakistocracy.

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?

As we step into this world—as we enter the age of kakistocracy—we should remember one thing. This isn’t a departure from [Donald] Trump's populism. It's the foundation of it. This is what Trump campaigned on.

Some nation-states have suffered what the Greeks called kakistocracy—government by the worst of men. International law can, in theory if not always in practice, keep these kakistocracies from damaging too much.

Word Forms

• kakistocracies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include kratocracy, ptochocracy, critocracy, kritocracy, despotocracy, oligocracy.

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