2001 — "Argentina's mistake was to think there was a shortcut to economic reform", The Independent, 21 December 2001:
Not for nothing do its critics call President de la Rua's regime an "ineptocracy".
2006 — Patrick McGuinness, "Paving over the.", The Western Mail, 8 April 2006:
As anyone who has lived here even a short a time knows: it's not the crachach that run the show, but a one-party ineptocracy fast running out of people to blame.
"Cardiff council operates a 'no can do culture' and morale among general staff is low. The council operates as a private club, with the Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Conservatives all too happy to perpetuate an ineptocracy."
"People like to talk about a neoconservative cabal in the White House," he said, referring to the chief architects of the Iraq War, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz. "But what you really have is an ineptocracy: these people can't do anything right."
I asked him what he'd recommend to make Latin America's ineptocracies more efficient in fighting crime, providing better education, or offering good public services.
Noun: "(pejorative) the phenomenon of governance or leadership by the incompetent"
1992 August 20, Dian De Sha, “Re: ---istocracy ???”, in alt.usage.english[1] (Usenet):
>Kakistocracy is governance by the worst. I take this to mean the most >evil, degraded, despicable, or the like. What is the form of >governance that is by the least able or competent...as in the >administration of a university...is this also kakistocracy? Ineptocracy?
