1. 1 Like many other disciplines, psychology is a gerontocracy.

2. But in practice Geneva was a patrician gerontocracy, dominated by a few families.

3. 5 But in practice Geneva was a patrician gerontocracy, dominated by a few families.

4. 4 A gerontocracy: The President is elected, but only those over 45 (retirement age) can vote.

5. 3 The phenomenon of gerontocracy has existed for millennia because the young are accustomed to following the aged.

6. 2 In fact, the gerontocracy has few legal underpinnings; rather it has to do with culture and tradition.

7. Although the population is now mainly black or mulatto and young, its rulers form a mainly white gerontocracy.

8. 9 The Regent found the idea odd-as he had the puzzling gerontocracy the Robotech Masters had favored.

9. 6 Although the population is now mainly black or mulatto and young, its rulers form a mainly white gerontocracy.

10. 7 For the citizens of China, Indonesia, and Russia, which together account for over 1/4 of the world's population, a sickly gerontocracy means perpetual speculation and uncertainty.

11. 8 But by picking Mr Tanigaki over younger guns with ambitions to shake up the party's gerontocracy, the LDP shows that its eyes are still fixed on the past—and has not learned many lessons from defeat.