Bureaucracy vs. Autocracy

Bureaucracynoun

Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.

Bureaucracynoun

A system of administration based upon organisation into bureaus, division of labour, a hierarchy of authority, etc., designed to dispose of a large body of work in a routine manner.

Bureaucracynoun

The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.

Bureaucracynoun

Excessive red tape and routine in any administration, body or behaviour.

Bureaucracynoun

A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.

Bureaucracynoun

Government officials, collectively; - used especially of nonelected government officials.

Bureaucracynoun

nonelective government officials

Bureaucracy

The term bureaucracy () may refer both to a body of non-elected governing officials (bureaucrats) and to an administrative policy-making group. Historically, a bureaucracy was a government administration managed by departments staffed with non-elected officials.

Autocracynoun

(uncountable) A form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual.

Autocracynoun

(countable) An instance of this government.

Autocracynoun

Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.

Autocracynoun

Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.

Autocracynoun

Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.

Autocracynoun

The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.

Autocracynoun

a political system governed by a single individual

Autocracynoun

a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual

Autocracy

Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power over a state is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of coup d'état or other forms of rebellion).In earlier times, the term autocrat was coined as a favorable description of a ruler, having some connection to the concept of as well as an indication of grandeur and power. This use of the term continued into modern times, as the Russian Emperor was styled as late as the early 20th century.