The confusion owes a great deal to the fact that the United States, at its founding, was somewhat more democratic than its ...

Plutocracy, a funny word, seen occasionally in the press, reminds us oldsters of a dog, Pluto, in the Walt Disney movies. It is also the name of what used to ...

Germany was a democracy until Adolf Hitler turned in ... An aristocracy (ruled by the noble) and plutocracy (ruled by the rich), for example. Some political scientists and researchers have debated ...