A democracy that departed from the civil and political equality which was its supposed basis, and gave ascendancy to a faction, was sometimes designated by the term ochlocracy, or the dominion of the rabble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

The latter is rightly called "ochlocracy" -- mob rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive Bloggers] Reference

If we lived in a mobocracy (also known as ochlocracy) we would vote and the majority would rule on every little issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [RutlandHerald.com] Reference

"ochlocracy," or government by the mob, in which the numbers have no real share: an oligarchy of the fiercest, the noisiest, the rashest, and the most shameless, which is surely swallowed up either by a despotism, as in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography] Reference

This is called grandstanding for the sake of ochlocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Should Go] Reference

Sadly, the country is terrorized and under control of ochlocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nepal's Special Security Plan: Political Stunt?] Reference

Sadly, the country is terrorized and under control of ochlocracy. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nepal's Special Security Plan: Political Stunt?] Reference

There can be ochlocracy in bicameral systems & democracy in unicameral ones. urgs Says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Politeness Reflex] Reference

Taken to the extreme, either part eventually leads to something maybe ochlocracy, maybe oligarchy that is not democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The essential ingredient California needs to make a new Constitution work] Reference

Their form of government was a near-anarchic form of ochlocracy, he knew -- mob rule of some sort, as might be expected among such people.    From Wordnik.com.  [But, I Don't Think] Reference

The constant election of Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, Rangel, Conyers, Marion Berry, etc etc etc should also be proof enough of the dangers of ochlocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Republicans and Shadow Diplomacy - E_Pluribus_Unum’s blog - RedState] Reference

Democratic process in pre-enlightenment society inevitably produces the worst kind of tyranny: tyranny of the fanatical mob what Plato named “ochlocracy”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama and the law: about that little thing called “procedure”] Reference

Hence Pythagoras and his disciples, though they were vegetable-eaters, eschewed the bean as an article of diet, from its association with politics, demagogism, and ochlocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference

To distinguish, democracy degenerates into ochlocracy, and aristocracy into oligarchy; and I would add that royalty degenerates into tyranny; but this last word is ambiguous and needs explanation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Social Contract] Reference

Every State and many of us too e.g. football mobs, fears the crowd, fears that it will turn into a mob and mob rule is ochlocracy, a particular concern in Imperial Rome, for example, in the time of Commodus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

The British constitution wisely limited the franchise to the aristocracy and wealthy bourgeoisie, which saved their system from ochlocracy; but it also ensured that the king had to govern with the co-operation of parliament.    From Wordnik.com.  [August Wilhelm Rehberg] Reference

Plant bombs and kidnap us and you will see how one of our greatest failures (and strengths) is our collective inability to understand the meaning of the word “terror” (we also think that “democracy” equals “ochlocracy”).    From Wordnik.com.  [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference

At this time the middle class, fearing the return of ochlocracy, and the noblest patriots of 1739 and 1791, had become re-inclined to monarchy; and finding themselves the majority of the sections of Paris, they looked forward to the elections with exultation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

I recall being elsewhere during the so-called "revolution" that brought her to power - I has hardpressed by my British and Chinese counterparts to explain how the process could be democratic as opposed to an ochlocracy over the morning's first shot of liquor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2003-02-01] Reference

The contrast between the one and the many -- a king or an ochlocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference

Then the mob of a capital city has overwhelmed the democracy in an ochlocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Social Classes Owe to Each Other] Reference

"However, what they intended by democracy, as can be seen from Madison's definition of it was ochlocracy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [No Compromise When You're Right!] Reference

If the Founding Fathers wanted us to confuse the terms of democracy with ochlocracy they would have used that term.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Compromise When You're Right!] Reference

Then we don't have democracy, the rule of representative government, but ochlocracy, the rule of the 'mob,' the mobile vulgus.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Compromise When You're Right!] Reference

But consider that in doing so you are blowing the trumpet of ochlocracy and anarchy, the arch-enemy of all legislative order, all civilisation, and all humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays of Schopenhauer] Reference

In ancient Greece, the rule of the mob - technically okhlo­kratia: ochlocracy - was considered one of the three bad forms of government, together with oligarchy and tyranny.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

I’m of the ochlocracy with Prestopher Palumbus and Porvus Parrio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

You’re going hand in hand with ochlocracy and anarchy, the arch enemy of all legislative order, all civilization and all humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion] Reference

In ochlocracy, "Might is right," and bullies rule the political process. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [No Compromise When You're Right!] Reference

Character of an ochlocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

ochlocracy and the teeming masses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference