What does ochlocracy mean?
Ochlocracy means Mob rule; government by the masses; mobocracy..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ɒkˈlɒk.ɹə.si/ · noun
Mob rule; government by the masses; mobocracy..
This constitutes a grave threat to the American Republic and degrades it into an Ochlocracy, or government by mob rule.
Referendums are snapshots of sentiment at a given point in time. Government by referendum is government by crowd acclamation: not democracy, but ochlocracy. That is exactly why we have representative democracy. If referendums would be a poor way to decide on health and safety, air traffic control, or education, they are an exceedingly poor way to decide a matter as momentous as membership of the EU. This is and should be a matter for Parliament, taking all factors into account.
Use ochlocracy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ochlocracy means Mob rule; government by the masses; mobocracy..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
This constitutes a grave threat to the American Republic and degrades it into an Ochlocracy, or government by mob rule.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.