kratocracy

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A government established by the forceful or cunning seizure of power and maintained by strength.
 * 2) * 2012, Cory Blad, Banu Koçer, Political Islam and State Legitimacy in Turkey: The Role of National Culture in Neoliberal State-Building in International Political Sociology, volume 6, page 36:
 * To many outside observers, Turkey is a unique country that seems perpetually balancing on a steep precipice between kratocracy and democracy, between Islam and capitalism, or even more melodramatically, between East and West.
 * 1) * In Praise of a Roman-American Rhapsody in 2013 (originally 1997), Francis Boni, A Life Song Between Two Worlds: Revised and Expanded, iUniverse LLC, page 37:
 * For, without its feeling of compassion, a kratocracy,
 * For, without its feeling of compassion, a kratocracy,