mobocracy

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mobocracy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mobocracy \Mob*oc"ra*cy\, n. [Mob rabble + -cracy, as in
     democracy.]
     A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control
     public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested
     rights.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           It is good name that Dr. Stevens has given to our
           present situation (for one can not call it a
           government), a mobocracy.                --Walpole.
     [1913 Webster]

mobocracy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mobocracy
      n 1: a political system in which a mob is the source of control;
           government by the masses [syn: mobocracy, ochlocracy]