ethnocracy

plural ethnocracies

1. countableuncountableA form of government in which a particular ethnic group holds a disproportionate amount of government power.

   In this sense, ethnocracy as a socio-political regime is outcome of ethnonationalism, that brand of nationalism that views the nation as a "natural" and ethnically "pure" community, as opposed to its liberal conceptualisation as a community based on equal rights and duties.

   2005, Paul Dresch, Monarchies and Nations, →ISBN, page 119