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kakistocracy
Kakistocracy (noun) means Rule by the worst or least able people in a country.
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Rule by the worst or least able people in a country.
"Thus, the problem was not whether corruption/power abuse was allowed, but how to keep a balance between uprightness and kakistocracy."
— Gang Deng, Trinary Structure: Origin, Tension and Equilibrium (1999)
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Etymology
Formed from Ancient Greek κάκιστος (kákistos, "worst"), the superlative of κακός (kakós, "bad"), combined with -κρατία (-kratía, "power, rule, government"), which corresponds to -cracy. The English author Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) used the word, perhaps re-coining it, in his 1829 novella The Misfortunes of Elphin, as the opposite of aristocracy (see second quotation).
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"kakistocracy" (noun) means rule by the worst or least able people in a country.
