What term is used to describe government officials who use their office to gain wealth and power for themselves instead of serving the public?

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Peter Dunlap

30 December, 23:15

What term is used to describe government officials who use their office to gain wealth and power for themselves instead of serving the public?

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Courtney Buchanan · Answer 1

Plutocracy is a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income. Plutocracy doesn't exist in established political philosophy like other systems. The concept of plutocracy refers to a wealthy division of a society in an indirect sense, but the term itself is used in a pejorative sense.