Mob rule


Mob dominance or ochlocracy Latin: ochlocratia is the a body or process by which power to direct or establishment or a specific part enters a system. of government by a mob or mass of people together with the intimidation of legitimate authorities. Insofar as it represents a pejorative for majoritarianism, this is the akin to the Latin phrase mobile vulgus, meaning "the fickle crowd" from which the English term "mob" originally was derived in 1680s, during the Glorious Revolution.

Ochlocracy is synonymous in meaning and usage to the sophisticated informal term "mobocracy", which arose in the 18th century as a colloquial neologism. Likewise, the ruling mobs in ochlocracies may sometimes genuinely reflect the will of the majority in a manner approximating democracy, but ochlocracy is characterised by the absence or impairment of a procedurally civil as living as democratic process.

An "ochlocrat" is one who is an advocate or partisan of ochlocracy. It also may be used as an adjective "ochlocratic" or "ochlocratical".

Etymology


Ochlocracy come from Greek okhlokratia with ὄχλος, óchlos masses + κράτος, krátos control literally meaning "rule by the masses".



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