paedocracy

English

Etymology

From paedo- +‎ -cracy.

Noun

paedocracy (countable and uncountable, plural paedocracies)

1. Rule by children.
   • 2012, Doyle Greene, Teens, TV and Tunes: The Manufacturing of American Adolescent Culture:

     Paedocracy too often functions within the industry not to explain the audience, but to explain them away, to contain their potential threat, to render obvious their need for protection, regulation, rule. The contradictions of recent sitcoms can be traced to the contradictions of TV paedocracy.

Synonyms

• infantocracy