By Flora Alexandrou
With its Greek-tinged tone, kakistocracy is a word familiar to some, unfamiliar to many, yet more relevant than ever and increasingly accurate in describing systems we still call “democratic”.
The political term, though not coined in Classical Greece (even if most “-cracy” suffixes trace their roots there), first surfaced in the 17th century. But it was only centuries later that it found its way into political theory,
