W4 - The Government: "Forms of Government" (P2)

• Anarchy


  state of having no government
• Adhocracy


  operates in opposite fashion to a bureaucracy; government in unstructured fashion
• Androcracy or Andrarchy


  rulers are male
• Atheocracy


  religion is forbidden
• Autarchy


  absolute ruler
• Bureaucracy


  civil servants
• Confederacy


  union of sovereign states
• Dyarchy


  two; dual monarchy
• Ethnocracy


  particular ethnic group
• Geniocracy


  intelligent people
• Gynarchy


  women; gynocracy
• Heptarchy


  seven people
• Judiciocracy


  judges
• Kakistocracy


  the worst
• Kleptocracy


  thieves
• Malarchy

  bad leaders
• Matriarchy


  women or mothers
• Meritocracy


  those with merit
• Minarchy


  smallest possible size
• Nomocracy


  through established laws
• Ochlocracy


  mobs
• Particracy


  political parties
• Patriarchy


  fathers
• Plutocracy


  the wealthy
• Polyarchy


  many people
• Republic


  elected officials
• Robocracy


  by robots
• Stratocracy


  armed forces
• Technocracy


  technical experts
• Tetrarchy


  four people
• Theocracy


  deity through the clergy or by religious law
• Timocracy


  propertied class
• Triumvirate


  three people