gerontocracy

• Although the population is now mainly black or mulatto and young, its rulers form a mainly white gerontocracy. —  Irving Wladawsky-Berger
• Let's consider, for example, the problem of gerontocracy in AFSCME -- the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, one of labor's more "progressive" unions. —  MRZine.org
• To generalise, we are in danger of becoming a gerontocracy where the old vote and the young do not. —  Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
• A gerontocracy has been running Cuba for security reasons and they have to hand the car keys over to their middle aged kids. —  Law and Disorder Radio
• In a conference call organized by the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American studies, Senior Research Associate Brian Latell characterized Cuba's new government as a "gerontocracy ... old men dealing with the possibility of an upheaval and instability among the younger generation of Cubans." —  FP Passport

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