Oligarchy: (from Greek olígos, meaning "few", and arkho, meaning "to rule or to command")
is a form of power structure in which power effectively rests with a small number of people. These people might be distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, education, corporate, religious or military control.
Such states are often controlled by a few prominent families who typically pass their influence from one generation to the next, but inheritance is not a necessary condition for the application of this term. ...




Oligarchie:
Die Oligarchie (griechisch oligarchia „Herrschaft von Wenigen“, zusammengesetzt aus oligoi „Wenige“ und arche „Herrschaft“)
ist in der klassischen (antiken) Verfassungslehre die Entartung der Aristokratie.