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An organization with little or no structure; the opposite of a bureaucracy (unnecessary procedures): "The adhocracy is a system that is designed to be flexible and to be quickly responsive to the needs of the moment rather than being excessively bureaucratic or involving a lot of complicated rules, details, and processes."

"There are those who say that adhocracies consist of managements that respond to urgent problems instead of delaying them or trying to avoid them."

Government by white men or Europeans.

A form of government in which the officials are decided by chance; such as, by drawing names from a hat.

Aleatocracy can be seen in Arthur C. Clarke's The Songs of Distant Earth.

The political rule by men or males; male supremacy.

A government controlled by the wind or by whim.

The miserable state of an anemocracy is when a people who put their trust in hurricanes are merely governed by the wind.

A government by angels.

The principle of opposition to all forms of government, or to all restraint of individuals by laws.

The rule or paramount influence of money.

1. Literally in Greek, the government of a state by its “best” citizens.
2. That form of government in which the chief power lies in the hands of those who are most distinguished by birth or fortune; political supremacy of a privileged order; oligarchy.
3. The class to which such a ruling body belongs, a patrician order; the collective body of those who form a privileged class with regard to the government of their country; the nobles.

The term is popularly extended to include all those who by birth or fortune occupy a position distinctly above the rest of the community, and is also used figuratively of those who are superior in other respects.

A member of an aristocracy; strictly, one of a ruling oligarchy; hence, one of a patrician order, a noble; occasionally, one who favors an aristocratic form of government as opposed to a democracy.

The principles or practices of aristocrats; haughty exclusiveness.

A form of government in which governmental power results from the group that holds the numerical majority in a state: "An arithmocracy can be a good form of government, or it can have negative results, depending on whether there is a balance between arithmocratic rule and individual liberty."

"If an arithmocracy wanted to do away with criticism of the government with the hope of assuring national harmony, should the government get by with passing a law forbidding the media or private citizens from openly challenging all governmental decisions?"

1. Absolute government.
2. A government in which one person has unrestricted control over others.
3. In medicine, the controlling influence exerted by nature or the vital principle on disease.

A monarch of uncontrolled authority; an absolute, governor; one who rules with undisputed sway: “Autocrat of all the Russias”, a title of the Tsar of Russia.

1. The principles or practices of autocrats.
2. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, an autocrat; absolute in authority, despotic.