OLIGARCHY

(noun) a political system governed by a few people
"one of his cardinal convictions was that Britain was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy", "the big cities were notoriously in the hands of the oligarchy of local businessmen"

Mnemonics for oligarchy

(Tag: ) oligo basically means a few people.. as used in oligopoly..
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(Tag: ) In line with Anarchy Monarchy and Oligoarchy (Oligo means few), matriarchy(run by a women) and patriarchy(run by a man)
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(Tag: ) like anarchy...run by few people
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(Tag: ) Because an oligarchy is usually corrupt and operates in the dark, we could say it was OILY-DARKLY
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(Tag: ) it sounds like ONLY archy...means only e few...!!!
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(Tag: g) monarchy and oligarchy,archy is common in same so easy to remember.
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(Tag: ) Kraft food makes olios(cookies) which are so popular, the cookie family was elected to rule canada.
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(Tag: ) oligo = 0 log = 0 people or a few
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