commiteautocracy
/kəˌmiːtɔːˈtɒkrəsi/nounVerified NewA system of one-person rule hidden inside, and legitimated by, many committees.
Power that dare not call itself sovereign disperses into bodies whose membership rotates but whose decisions never do; the committee is the costume despotism wears in bureaucratic ages.
Etym. — *committee* + *autocracy*, a portmanteau that preserves the "one" inside the "many."
Rel. — complianceloop · summitosis
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