Sentence examples for ochlocracy from inspiring English sources
noun
Mob rule; government by the masses; mobocracy.
The ideal forms in the Aristotelian scheme are monarchy, aristocracy, and polity (a term conveying some of the meaning of the modern concept of "constitutional democracy"); when perverted by the selfish abuse of power, they are transformed respectively into tyranny, oligarchy, and ochlocracy (or the mob rule of lawless democracy).
For them, democracy meant the terrifying Paris ochlocracy of the early 1790s.
The British constitution wisely limited the franchise to the aristocracy and wealthy bourgeoisie, which saved their system from ochlocracy; but it also ensured that the king had to govern with the co-operation of parliament.
The chief danger to democracy is that it could lead to ochlocracy, government by the mob.
But few want to allow voters to write them: that would be not so much democracy, they say, as ochlocracy mob rule.
David Frenkel, the firm's production manager, says demand is growing from police and military services in Europe, South America and Africa, bolstered by "war, unrest and natural disasters".Ochlocracy mob rule was a term coined in ancient times, when grain prices or a celebrity murder could spark a riot.
(It leaves open, however, the interesting possibility that Dr Castro plans to run a kind of Athenian democracy or ochlocracy with the tenth or so of Cuba's population that can regularly be gathered in one of Havana's plazas).
