[Continuing on the purge of my drafts folder, here are the notes for another post whose point and purpose are long forgotten, from June 2009]
# Monarchy – tribal rule based on brute force
# Kingship – virtuous rule by one man
# Tyranny – wicked rule by one man
# Aristocracy – virtuous rule by a few men
# Oligarchy – wicked rule by a few men
# Democracy – virtuous rule by the many
# Ochlocracy – wicked rule by the many (mob rule)
via The Ring of Truth « The Committee of Public Safety.
[Sadly this blog is also now gone, but there is an archive at archive.org]