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Empire vs Kakistocracy - What's the difference?

empire | kakistocracy |

As nouns the difference between empire and kakistocracy

is that empire is a political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority while kakistocracy is government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.

empire

English

(wikipedia empire)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.
  • A group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to a foreign power.
  • A state ruled by an emperor.
  • An expansive and wealthy corporation.
    • the McDonald's fast food empire

    Related terms

    * emperor * imperial * imperium

    Derived terms

    * American Empire * British Empire * First French Empire * German Empire * Holy Roman Empire * Portuguese Empire * Roman Empire * Second French Empire * Spanish Empire * empirehood * global empire * colonial empire

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    kakistocracy

    English

    Noun

    (kakistocracies)
  • Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.
  • * 1894 , James Russell Lowell, Letters of James Russell Lowell]'' - ''To Joel Benton [1876, p.159:
    • Is ours a "government of the people, by the people, for the people," or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?
  • * 1999 , Gang Deng, The Premodern Chinese Economy: Structural Equilibrium and Capitalist Sterility :
    • Thus, the problem was not whether corruption/power abuse was allowed, but how to keep a balance between uprightness and kakistocracy .
  • * 2000 , Tom H. Hastings, Ecology of War and Peace: Counting the Cost of Conflict :
    • Some nation-states have suffered what the Greeks called kakistocracy'—government by the worst of men. International law can, in theory if not always in practice, keep these ' kakistocracies from damaging too much.

    External links

    * World Wide Words: Kakistocracy * Rick Finkelstein: Kakistocracy... A Word You Should Know English words suffixed with -cracy