英和和英

名詞

aretocracy (countable and uncountable, plural aretocracies)

1. (uncommon) A form of governance or political organization in which authority or eligibility for public office is based on virtue, moral excellence, or demonstrated civic merit.
   • 2016, Ada Palmer, Too Like the Lightning, →ISBN, page 150:

     It was a revolution, reader, a transition from republic to dictatorship in fifty years without a single drop of blood. Detractors call it a cult of charisma, but the Humanists themselves use aretocracy, rule by excellence.

参考

• aretecracy
• meritocracy
• aristocracy
• technocracy