rabbleocracyn.
/ˌrablˈɒkrəsi/, U.S. /ˌræb(ə)lˈɑkrəsi/ rare.
= mobocracy n.
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society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > ruling class or group > [noun] > of the mob
mobocracy1754
rabbleocracy1831
1831 C. C. F. Greville Mem. (1874) II. xiii. 112 It has elicited a strong Conservative demonstration, and proved that out of the rabble-ocracy (for everything is in ocracy now) his power is anything but unlimited.
1919 Daily Oklahoman 6 Mar. 6/2 Macaulay saw him seventy years ago and prophesied the doom of democracy when the congested slums of the city should awake breakfastless and set up a rabbleocracy.
1996 B. Spackman Fascist Virilities v. 132 The democracy of the leftist tradition is derided as canagliocrazia (a neologism that could be translated ‘rabbleocracy’) and is replaced by a fascistized democracy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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