Тимократия: Власть, основанная на богатстве и чести.

Form of government, where power derives from wealth

A timocracy (from Greek τιμή timē, "honor, worth" and κρατία kratia, "rule") in Aristotle's Politics is a state where only property owners may participate in government. More advanced forms of timocracy, where power derives entirely from wealth with no regard for social or civic responsibility, may shift in their form and become a plutocracy where the wealthy rule.

In The Republic, Plato describes five regimes (of which four are unjust). Timocracy (Book VIII, 545 B 550 B) is listed as the first "unjust" regime. Aristocracy degenerates into timocracy when, due to miscalculation on the part of its governed class, the next generation of guardians and auxiliaries includes persons of an inferior nature (the persons with souls made of iron or bronze, as opposed to the ideal guardians and auxiliaries, who have souls made of gold and silver). A timocracy, in choosing its leaders, is "inclining rather to the more high spirited and simple minded type, who are better suited for war". The city state of Sparta provided Plato with a real world model for this form of government. Modern observers might describe Sparta as a totalitarian or one party state, although the details we know of its society come almost exclusively from Sparta's enemies. The idea of militarism stratocracy accurately reflects the fundamental values of Spartan society. The only one of Plato's five regimes that he does deem fit to govern is aristocracy, the four other regimes (including Timocracy) are unjust according to Plato. The unjust regimes in Plato's work refer to governing that lead to chaos and ultimately corruption.