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Oligarchy (from Ancient Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía) 'rule by few'; from ὀλίγος (olígos) 'few' and ἄρχω (árkhō) 'to rule, command') [1] [2] [3] is a form of government in which power rests with a small number of people.
Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).
Examples are the director of the institute where Putin obtained a degree in 1996, Vladimir Litvinenko, [29] and Putin's childhood friend and judo-teacher Arkady Rotenberg. [30] Gennady Timchenko was close friends with Russian leader Vladimir Putin since the early 1980s. [31] [32] In 1991, Putin gave Timchenko an oil export license. [11]
The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his book “Politics” that “democracy is safer and more free from civil strife than oligarchy; for in oligarchies two kinds of strife spring up, faction between different members of the oligarchy and also faction between the oligarchs and the people.” What are some examples of oligarchies?
The term oligarchy refers to a government that is run by a handful of people, often for their own gain. The president went on to say there could be "dangerous consequences if their abuse of power ...
العربية; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Bosanski; Чӑвашла
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the Soviet Union during the period of Joseph Stalin's rule, along with Nazi Germany, was a "modern example" of a totalitarian state, being among "the first examples of decentralized or popular totalitarianism, in which the state achieved overwhelming popular support for its leadership."
Progressives are focusing their messaging on being anti-oligarchy, training their sights not just on Republicans but also on Democrats they argue are too beholden to corporate interests. Following ...