mobocracy

In an orderly society, authority is respected, otherwise mobocracy reigns.

"Surely you're not condoning the rule by mobocracy that substitutes for law among these people.

Nor can we replace representative government with his "electronic town meetings" - mobocracy by instant referendum.

This is nothing more than mobocracy.

Often he railed against what he called "mobocracy" and the leveling effect of mass taste.

Ochlocracy or mobocracy is something that is governed by a mob (crowd of people).

What we need, to ward off mobocracy and safeguard a civilized form of government, is more of this sniffing.

Moi, in a speech on May 15, again attacked multipartyism, referring to the concept as "mobocracy".

South Carolina was ruled more by "mobocracy and bloodshed" than by Chamberlain's government.

Surely you don't think you have come under a . . . mobocracy. "

He was a brilliant, savage old Tory given to frequent harangues from the bench against the Republicans and what he called their "mobocracy."

Ochlocracy is synonymous in meaning and usage to the modern, informal term "mobocracy," which emerged from a much more recent colloquial etymology.

"Meritocracy: Beyond Democracy - and Mobocracy!"

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The already frantic crowd went rabid; the ranks of uniformed "American" soldiers broke, and if chaos had ruled previously, nihilistic mobocracy now reigned supreme.

In the run up to the December 2005 protest for democracy in Hong Kong, he said that demonstrators are mobs, and democracy is mobocracy.

In their opinion, the pre-war Legislaturalist Havenite leaders were "bad liberals" who had become prisoners of the "mobocracy" of the Haven System.

Robinson, Matthew Mobocracy: How the Media's Obsession with Polling Twists the News, Alters Elections, and Undermines Democracy (2002).

Their leaders were men of wealth and property who loved order, respected their betters, looked down on their inferiors, and feared "mobocracy" at home more than rule by a distant monarch.

Gordon Wu, chairman of property developers Hopewell Holdings Ltd, criticised marchers by stating that deciding reform proposals through demonstrations reflect mobocracy rather than the rule of law.

At worst, their sole interest is the protection of their standard of living from the encroachments of the welfare state; at best, they are genuinely concerned about the general decay of standards and the trend toward mobocracy and chaos.

While the paper and its managers were threatened with mob violence, the preparation made by Schneider and his assistants had the effect of restraining the spirit of mobocracy and protecting the city from the disgrace of lawless violence.

According to the council's minutes, Smith said he "...would rather die tomorrow and have the thing smashed, than live and have it go on, for it was exciting the spirit of mobocracy among the people, and bringing death and destruction upon us."

The spirit of independency is contagious; if you can presume to act "by the authority of the good people of these Colonies," who is to say that the selfish determination of this mobocracy will not have repercussions in France and elsewhere?