heterarchy

Meaning

Noun

• The rule of an alien; rule from without; government by an extraterritorial power.
• An example of this government.
• A system of organization where the elements of the organization are unranked (non-hierarchical) or where they possess the potential to be ranked a number of different ways.

Origin

• heter- + -archy; equivalent to Katharevousa ἑτεραρχία / Dimotiki ετεραρχία