noun
- a form of government in which power rests with a small group of people whose authority generally is based on wealth, family ties, education, corporate reach, military control, or some other form of influence
Usage: rare; technical; political science
Examples
- The country's endarchy was maintained by a wealthy merchant class that controlled trade routes.
- Political scientists debated whether the nation had become an endarchy dominated by corporate interests.
- An endarchy differs from a monarchy in that power is distributed among multiple elites rather than a single ruler.