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Oligarchy (from
Ancient Gr**** ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía) 'rule by few'; from ὀλίγος (olígos) 'few', and ἄρχω (árkhō) 'to rule, command') is a
conceptual form...
- The
Meiji oligarchy was the new
ruling class of
Meiji period ****an. In ****anese, the
Meiji oligarchy is
called the
domain clique (藩閥, hambatsu). The members...
- The iron law of
oligarchy is a
political theory first developed by the German-born
Italian sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book
Political Parties...
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discusses in the
Republic five
types of regimes: aristocracy, timocracy,
oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny. The
question raised by
Plato in the Republic:...
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called the
period from
roughly 1714 to 1783 the "long
period of Whig
oligarchy". By 1784, both the
Whigs and
Tories had
become formal political parties...
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democratic government of
ancient Athens and
replaced it with a short-lived
oligarchy known as the Four Hundred. In the wake of the
financial crisis caused...
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characterize the U.S. as an "
oligarchy" or "plutocracy" per se; however, they do
apply the
concept of "civil
oligarchy" as used by
Jeffrey A. Winters...
- "member of an
oligarchy; a
person who is part of a
small group holding power in a state".
Gilded Age
Russian oligarchs Ukrainian oligarchs Oligarchy Tai-pan...
- the polity.
Hereditary rule in this
understanding is more
related to
oligarchy, a
corrupted form of
aristocracy where there is rule by a few, but not...
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specialising in the
study of
oligarchy. He has
written extensively on
Indonesia and on
oligarchy in the
United States. His 2011 book
Oligarchy was the 2012 winner...
