critocracy
A system of rule by judges.
In the United States it may be called a Plutarchy or pure rule of money with a Critocracy or government by Judges because through the complicated machinery of checks and balances in the Constitution to prevent the people's rule ...
A system of rule by critics.
Literature and the literary critocracy have an advantage over the visual arts, they can be read and enjoyed at leisure in direct and frequent contact with the author; but for paintings, sculpture and architecture we have to get up and go […]
Where it comes from
Neologism, formed from Ancient Greek κριτής (kritḗs, “judge”) + -ocracy. Alternatively, from crit[ic] + -ocracy.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry critocracy (CC BY-SA 4.0).