Appendix:List of forms of government

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A

• acracy
• adhocracy
• albocracy
• anarchy
• androcracy (male dominance in the traditional political arena)
• anemocracy
• angelocracy (rule by angels)
• antarchy
• argentocracy (rule or paramount influence of money)
• aristarchy
• aristocracy
• arithmocracy (rule by the numerical majority of the population [1])
• autarchy
• autocracy

B

• barbarocracy
• beerocracy (government by the brewing and beer-selling interests)
• biarchy
• binarchy
• bureaucracy

C

• cannonarchy (rule by cannon)
• capelocracy
• chiliarchy
• chirocracy
• chromatocracy
• chrysoaristocracy
• chrysocracy
• corpocracy
• cosmarchy
• cottonocracy (A political system which rests on cotton economy)
• cryptarchy

D

• decadarchy
• decarchy (rule by ten people)
• demarchy
• democracy
• demonarchy (rule by demons used in the context of racial oppression)
• demonocracy
• despotism
• despotocracy
• diabolocracy
• diarchy
• dictatorship
• dinarchy
• dodecarchy
• doulocracy
• duarchy
• dulocracy
• dyarchy

E

• ecclesiarchy
• endarchy
• ergatocracy
• ethnarchy
• ethnocracy
• exarchy

F

• foolocracy

G

• gerontocracy
• gunarchy
• gymnasiarchy (gymnasiarch: in ancient Greece a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities)
• gynaecocracy
• gynarchy
• gynocracy

H

• hagiarchy (Government by holy people such as priests, also called hagiocracy)
• hagiocracy (Government by holy people such as priests, also called hagiarchy)
• hamarchy
• hecatarchy
• hecatontarchy
• hendecarchy
• heptarchy
• heroarchy (Government by heroes)
• hetaerocracy
• heterarchy
• hierarchy
• hierocracy
• hipparchy
• hoplarchy
• hyperanarchy
• hyperarchy

I

• iatrarchy
• infantocracy
• isocracy

J

• jesuitocracy (rule by Jesuits)
• juntocracy

K

• kakistocracy (government by the worst)
• kleptocracy (government by thieves)
• kritarchy (government by judges)

L

• landocracy
• logocracy

M

• matriarchy
• meritocracy
• merocracy
• mesocracy
• metrocracy
• millionocracy (rule by the wealthy)
• millocracy
• mobocracy
• monarchy
• moneyocracy
• monocracy
• myriarchy

N

• navarchy
• neocracy
• nomocracy (a nomocracy is a government which is ruled by law)

O

• ochlocracy
• octarchy
• oligarchy

P

• paedarchy
• paedocracy (government by children)
• panarchy
• pantarchy (an anarchistic perfect state)
• pantisocracy
• paparchy
• papyrocracy (rule by papers compare with bureaucracy)
• parsonarchy (rule by priests)
• partocracy
• patriarchy
• pedantocracy
• pentarchy (government by five persons)
• phallocracy (power of the phallus, a male-ominated society that denigrates the female role in reproduction)
• philosophocracy
• phylarchy
• physiocracy (rule of nature)
• phobiocracy (rule by fear)
• pigmentocracy
• plantocracy
• plousiocracy (rule by the wealthy plutocracy)
• plutarchy
• plutocracy
• polarchy (usage in printed works appears to be rare)
• policeocracy (government by police, usage of term in printed works appears to be rare)
• pollarchy
• polyarchy
• polycracy
• popocracy
• pornocracy
• prophetocracy
• psephocracy (rule by ballot)
• ptochocracy (government by paupers)
• punditocracy

Q

• quangocracy

R

• rotocracy

S

• septarchy (rule by seven people but see also heptarchy)
• shopocracy
• slavocracy (a social system in which the central class relationship is that between master and slave)
• snobocracy
• sociocracy
• squarsonocracy
• squatterarchy (squatters collectively)
• squattocracy
• squirearchy
• squirocracy
• statocracy
• stratarchy
• stratocracy
• strumpetocracy (rule by strumpets)
• synarchy

T

• technocracy
• tetradarchy (Rule by four people, appears to be rarely used in printed works)
• tetrarchy
• thalassiarchy (the office of an admiral)
• thalassocracy
• thearchy
• theatrocracy
• theocracy
• timarchy (a term used by Plato to describe 'the ambitious society')
• timocracy
• triarchy
• tritarchy
• tritheocracy (rule by three deities, often in the Christian context of the Trinity)

W

• Whiggarchy (rule by Whigs, usually capitalized)

X

• xenocracy (foreign rule)