ochlocracy

But few want to allow voters to write them: that would be not so much democracy, they say, as ochlocracy—mob rule.

We will not carry on any further our picture of the ochlocracy, in which all social union was entirely dissolved, and the state was surrendered to the arbitrary will of a turbulent populace.

Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few.

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.

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.