Appendix:Forms of government

A

 * acracy (lack of rule)
 * adhocracy
 * albocracy (white)
 * anarchy
 * androcracy (male dominance in the traditional political arena)
 * anemocracy
 * angelocracy (rule by angels)
 * anocracy
 * antarchy
 * argentocracy (rule or paramount influence of money)
 * aristarchy
 * aristocracy (rule by birth)
 * arithmocracy (rule by the numerical majority of the population )
 * autarchy
 * autocracy

B

 * barbarocracy
 * beerocracy (government by the brewing and beer-selling interests)
 * biarchy
 * binarchy
 * bureaucracy

C

 * cannonarchy (rule by cannon)
 * capelocracy
 * chiliarchy
 * chirocracy
 * chromatocracy
 * chrysoaristocracy
 * chrysocracy
 * corpocracy
 * cosmarchy
 * cottonocracy (A political system which rests on cotton economy)
 * cryptarchy

D

 * decadarchy
 * decarchy (rule by ten people)
 * demarchy
 * democracy
 * demonarchy (rule by demons used in the context of racial oppression)
 * demonocracy
 * despotism
 * despotocracy
 * diabolocracy
 * diarchy
 * dictatorship
 * dinarchy
 * dodecarchy
 * doulocracy
 * duarchy
 * dulocracy
 * dyarchy

E

 * ecclesiarchy
 * endarchy
 * ergatocracy
 * ethnarchy
 * ethnocracy
 * exarchy

F

 * foolocracy

G

 * gerontocracy
 * gunarchy
 * gymnasiarchy (gymnasiarch: in ancient Greece a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities)
 * gynaecocracy
 * gynarchy
 * gynocracy

H

 * hagiarchy (Government by holy people such as priests, also called hagiocracy)
 * hagiocracy (Government by holy people such as priests, also called hagiarchy)
 * hamarchy
 * hecatarchy
 * hecatontarchy
 * hendecarchy
 * heptarchy (rule by seven people)
 * heroarchy (Government by heroes)
 * hetaerocracy
 * heterarchy
 * hierarchy
 * hierocracy
 * hipparchy
 * hoplarchy
 * hyperanarchy
 * hyperarchy

I

 * iatrarchy
 * infantocracy
 * isocracy

J

 * jesuitocracy (rule by Jesuits)
 * juntocracy

K

 * kakistocracy (government by the worst)
 * kleptocracy (government by thieves)
 * kritarchy (government by judges)
 * kratocracy

L

 * landocracy
 * logocracy

M

 * matriarchy
 * meritocracy
 * merocracy
 * mesocracy
 * metrocracy
 * millionocracy (rule by the wealthy)
 * millocracy
 * mobocracy
 * monarchy
 * moneyocracy
 * monocracy
 * myriarchy

N

 * navarchy
 * neocracy
 * nomocracy (a nomocracy is a government which is ruled by law)

O

 * ochlocracy
 * octarchy
 * oligarchy

P

 * paedarchy
 * paedocracy (government by children)
 * panarchy
 * pantarchy (an anarchistic perfect state, government by all the people;world government)
 * pantisocracy
 * paparchy
 * papyrocracy (rule by papers compare with bureaucracy)
 * parsonarchy (rule by priests)
 * partocracy
 * partyarchy
 * patriarchy
 * pedantocracy
 * pentarchy (government by five persons)
 * phallocracy (power of the phallus, a male-dominated society that denigrates the female role in reproduction)
 * philosophocracy
 * phylarchy
 * physiocracy (rule of nature)
 * phobiocracy (rule by fear)
 * pigmentocracy
 * plantocracy
 * plousiocracy (rule by the wealthy plutocracy)
 * plutarchy
 * plutocracy
 * polarchy (usage in printed works appears to be rare)
 * policeocracy (government by police, usage of term in printed works appears to be rare)
 * pollarchy
 * polyarchy
 * polycracy
 * popocracy
 * pornocracy
 * prophetocracy
 * psephocracy (rule by ballot)
 * ptochocracy (government by paupers)
 * punditocracy

Q

 * quangocracy

R

 * rotocracy

S

 * septarchy (rule by seven people but see also heptarchy)
 * shopocracy
 * slavocracy (a social system in which the central class relationship is that between master and slave)
 * snobocracy
 * sociocracy
 * squarsonocracy
 * squatterarchy (squatters collectively)
 * squattocracy
 * squirearchy
 * squirocracy
 * statocracy
 * stratarchy
 * stratocracy
 * strumpetocracy (rule by strumpets)
 * synarchy

T

 * technocracy
 * tetradarchy (Rule by four people, appears to be rarely used in printed works)
 * tetrarchy
 * thalassiarchy (the office of an admiral)
 * thalassocracy
 * thearchy
 * theatrocracy
 * theocracy
 * timarchy (a term used by Plato to describe 'the ambitious society')
 * timocracy
 * triarchy
 * tritarchy
 * tritheocracy (rule by three deities, often in the Christian context of the Trinity)

W

 * Whiggarchy (rule by Whigs, usually capitalized)

X

 * xenocracy (foreign rule)