noun
- plural of mobocracy; governments or political systems controlled by mobs or masses of people
Usage: political science term
Examples
- The historian warned that democracies could degenerate into mobocracies without proper institutions.
- Ancient philosophers feared that pure democracies would become mobocracies driven by emotion rather than reason.
- The political scientist studied how several nations had transformed from stable governments into mobocracies.
- Critics argued that social media was creating digital mobocracies where crowds could silence opposing voices.
- The founding fathers designed checks and balances to prevent the new republic from becoming one of history’s mobocracies.
- During times of crisis, even established democracies risk sliding toward mobocracies.