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This is a list of countries by system of government. There is also a political mapping of the world that shows what form of government each country has, as well as a brief description of what each form of government entails. The list is colour-coded according to the type of government, for example: blue represents a republic with an executive head of state, and pink is a constitutional monarchy with a ceremonial head of state. The colour-coding also appears on the following map, representing the same government categories. The legend of what the different colours represent is found just below the map.
E-GOVERNMENT FUNDAMENTALS Mohammed Alshehri and Steve Drew School of ICT, Griffith University Brisbane, Australia ABSTRACT Effective e-government is becoming an important aim for many governments around the world. When such votes are passed, either a new government is formed or, in case this is not possible, new elections are held. Under presidentialism, in turn, the government and the legislature serve fixed and independent terms in office. T This basic difference is thought to produce a number of consequences for the way these systems operate:.
- 1List of countries
- 1.4Map
- 2Systems of governance
- 2.1Presidential systems
- 2.2Semi-presidential systems
- 2.3Parliamentary systems
- 2.4Constitutional monarchies
- 3Systems of internal structure
- 3.1Unitary states
List of countries[edit]
UN member states and observers[edit]
Name | Constitutional form | Head of state | Basis of executive legitimacy |
---|---|---|---|
Afghanistan | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Albania | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Algeria | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Andorra | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Angola | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Antigua and Barbuda | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Argentina | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Armenia | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Australia | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Austria | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Azerbaijan | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Bahamas, The | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Bahrain | Constitutional monarchy | Executive | Monarch personally exercises power in concert with other institutions |
Bangladesh | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Barbados | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Belarus | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Belgium | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Belize | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Benin | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Bhutan | Constitutional monarchy | Executive | Monarch personally exercises power in concert with other institutions |
Bolivia | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Botswana | Republic | Executive | Presidency is elected by legislature; ministry may be, or not be, subject to parliamentary confidence |
Brazil | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Brunei | Absolute monarchy | Executive | All authority vested in absolute monarch |
Bulgaria | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Burkina Faso | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Burundi | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Cambodia | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Cameroon | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Canada | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Cape Verde | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Central African Republic | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Chad | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Chile | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
China, People's Republic of | Republic | Executive | Power constitutionally linked to a single political movement [1] |
Colombia | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Comoros | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Congo, Republic of the | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Costa Rica | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Côte d'Ivoire | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Croatia | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Cuba | Republic | Executive | Power constitutionally linked to a single political movement |
Cyprus | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Czech Republic | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Denmark | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Djibouti | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Dominica | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Dominican Republic | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
East Timor | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Ecuador | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Egypt | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
El Salvador | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Equatorial Guinea | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Eritrea | Republic | Executive | Power constitutionally linked to a single political movement |
Estonia | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Eswatini | Absolute monarchy | Executive | All authority vested in absolute monarch |
Ethiopia | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Federated States of Micronesia | Republic | Executive | Presidency is elected by legislature; ministry may be, or not be, subject to parliamentary confidence |
Fiji | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Finland | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
France | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Gabon | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Gambia, The | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Georgia | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Germany | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Ghana | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Greece | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Grenada | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Guatemala | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Guinea | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Guinea-Bissau | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Guyana | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Haiti | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Honduras | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Hungary | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Iceland | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
India | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Indonesia | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Iran | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Iraq | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Ireland | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Israel | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Italy | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Jamaica | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Japan | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Jordan | Constitutional monarchy | Executive | Monarch personally exercises power in concert with other institutions |
Kazakhstan | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Kenya | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Kiribati | Republic | Executive | Presidency is elected by legislature; ministry may be, or not be, subject to parliamentary confidence |
Korea, North | Republic | Executive | Power constitutionally linked to a single political movement |
Korea, South | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Kuwait | Constitutional monarchy | Executive | Monarch personally exercises power in concert with other institutions |
Kyrgyzstan | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Laos | Republic | Executive | Power constitutionally linked to a single political movement |
Latvia | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Lebanon | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Lesotho | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Liberia | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Libya | n/a | n/a | No constitutionally-defined basis to current regime |
Liechtenstein | Constitutional monarchy | Executive | Monarch personally exercises power in concert with other institutions |
Lithuania | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Luxembourg | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Madagascar | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Malawi | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Malaysia | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Maldives | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Mali | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Malta | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Marshall Islands | Republic | Executive | Presidency is elected by legislature; ministry may be, or not be, subject to parliamentary confidence |
Mauritania | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Mauritius | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Mexico | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Moldova | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Monaco | Constitutional monarchy | Executive | Monarch personally exercises power in concert with other institutions |
Mongolia | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Montenegro | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Morocco | Constitutional monarchy | Executive | Monarch personally exercises power in concert with other institutions |
Mozambique | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Myanmar | Republic | Executive | Presidency is elected by legislature; ministry may be, or not be, subject to parliamentary confidence |
Namibia | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Nauru | Republic | Executive | Presidency is elected by legislature; ministry may be, or not be, subject to parliamentary confidence |
Nepal | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Netherlands | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
New Zealand | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Nicaragua | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Niger | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Nigeria | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
North Macedonia | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Norway | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Oman | Absolute monarchy | Executive | All authority vested in absolute monarch |
Pakistan | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Palau | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Palestine | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Panama | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Papua New Guinea | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Paraguay | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Peru | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Philippines | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Poland | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Portugal | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Qatar | Absolute monarchy | Executive | All authority vested in absolute monarch |
Romania | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Russia | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Rwanda | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Saint Lucia | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Samoa | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
San Marino | Republic | Executive | Presidency is elected by legislature; ministry may be, or not be, subject to parliamentary confidence |
São Tomé and Príncipe | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Saudi Arabia | Absolute monarchy | Executive | All authority vested in absolute monarch |
Senegal | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Serbia | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Seychelles | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Sierra Leone | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Singapore | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Slovakia | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Slovenia | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Solomon Islands | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Somalia | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
South Africa | Republic | Executive | Presidency is elected by legislature; ministry may be, or not be, subject to parliamentary confidence |
South Sudan | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Spain | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Sri Lanka | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Sudan | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Suriname | Republic | Executive | Presidency is elected by legislature; ministry may be, or not be, subject to parliamentary confidence |
Sweden | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Switzerland | Republic | Executive | Presidency is elected by legislature; ministry may be, or not be, subject to parliamentary confidence |
Syria | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Tajikistan | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Tanzania | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Thailand | Constitutional monarchy | Executive | Monarch personally exercises power in concert with other institutions |
Togo | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Tonga | Constitutional monarchy | Executive | Monarch personally exercises power in concert with other institutions |
Trinidad and Tobago | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Tunisia | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Turkey | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Turkmenistan | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Tuvalu | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Uganda | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Ukraine | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
United Arab Emirates | Absolute monarchy | Executive | All authority vested in absolute monarch |
United Kingdom | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
United States | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Uruguay | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Uzbekistan | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Vanuatu | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Vatican City | Absolute monarchy | Executive | All authority vested in absolute monarch |
Venezuela | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Vietnam | Republic | Executive | Power constitutionally linked to a single political movement |
Yemen | n/a | n/a | No constitutionally-defined basis to current regime |
Zambia | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Zimbabwe | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Note that Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Mauritania are Islamic Republics.
Partially recognized states[edit]
The following states control their territory and are recognized by at least one UN member state.
Name | Constitutional form | Head of state | Basis of executive legitimacy |
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Abkhazia | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Cook Islands | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Kosovo | Republic | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Niue | Constitutional monarchy | Ceremonial | Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Northern Cyprus | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Republic of China | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic | Republic | Executive | Power constitutionally linked to a single political movement |
South Ossetia | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
Unrecognized states[edit]
The following states/governments control their territory, but are not recognised by any UN member state.
Name | Constitutional form | Head of state | Basis of executive legitimacy |
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Artsakh | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Somaliland | Republic | Executive | Presidency is independent of legislature |
Transnistria | Republic | Executive | Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence |
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- Republic: Executive head-of-state: Presidency is independent of legislature
- Republic: Executive head-of-state: Presidency is elected by legislature; ministry may be, or not be, subject to parliamentary confidence
- Republic: Executive head-of-state: Presidency independent of legislature; ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence
- Republic: Ceremonial head-of-state: Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence
- Constitutional monarchy: Ceremonial head-of-state: Ministry is subject to parliamentary confidence
- Constitutional monarchy: Executive head-of-state: Monarch personally exercises power in concert with other institutions
- Absolute monarchy: Executive head-of-state: All authority vested in absolute monarch
- One-party state/dictatorship: Executive head-of-state: Power constitutionally linked to a single political movement
- No constitutionally-defined basis to current regime
Note: this chart represent de jure systems of Government, not the de facto degree of democracy. Adobe video editor free download for mac. Several states constitutionally republics, broadly appear as authoritarian states.
Systems of governance[edit]
Italics indicate states with limited recognition.
Presidential systems[edit]
These are systems in which a president is the active head of the executive branch of government, and is elected and remains in office independently of the legislature.
In full presidential systems, the president is both head of state and head of government. There is generally no prime minister, although if one exists, in most cases, he or she serves purely at the discretion of the president (with the exceptions being Belarus and Kazakhstan, where the prime minister is effectively the head of government).[2][3]
The following list includes democratic and non-democratic states:
Presidential systems without a prime minister[edit]
The President has full executive powers.
- Afghanistan
- Angola
- Artsakh
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Burundi
- Chad
- Chile
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Costa Rica
- Cyprus
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Gambia, The
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Kenya
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Palau
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Philippines
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somaliland
- South Sudan
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- United States
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Presidential systems with a prime minister[edit]
- Abkhazia
- Argentina
- Belarus
- Benin
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Djibouti
- Gabon
- Guinea
- Equatorial Guinea
- Guyana
- Ivory Coast
- Kazakhstan[3]
- Korea, South
- Peru
- Rwanda
- Sudan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Uzbekistan
- Yemen
Note: Iran may be considered to be a theocracy as the government is intertwined with the religious hierarchy[4]
This is the list of countries with presidential system
Semi-presidential systems[edit]
In semi-presidential systems, there is always both a president and a prime minister. In such systems, the president has genuine executive authority, unlike in a parliamentary republic, but the role of a head of government may be exercised by the prime minister.
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Premier-presidential systems[edit]
The president chooses the prime minister and cabinet, but only the parliament may remove them from office with a vote of no confidence. The president does not have the right to dismiss the prime minister or the cabinet.
- Algeria
- Burkina Faso
- Cape Verde
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the
- East Timor
- Egypt
- France
- Haiti
- Lithuania
- Madagascar
- Mali
- Mongolia
- Niger
- Northern Cyprus
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Sri Lanka
- Tunisia
- Ukraine[5]
President-parliamentary systems[edit]
The president chooses the prime minister and the cabinet without the confidence vote from the parliament, but must have the support of the parliament majority for their choice. In order to remove a prime minister or the whole cabinet from power, the president can dismiss them or the assembly can remove them by a vote of no confidence. Inland driver download.
- Azerbaijan
- Congo, Republic of the
- Guinea-Bissau
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Palestine
- Russia
- South Ossetia
- Syria
- Taiwan (ROC)
- Transnistria
Parliamentary systems[edit]
A parliamentary republic is a system in which a prime minister is the active head of the executive branch of government and also leader of the legislature. The president's degree of executive power may range from being significant (e.g. South Africa, where the President is also Head of Government; the role of Prime Minister doesn't exist), to intermediate (e.g. India, where the President is not Head of Government and therefore has little executive political power, but has a fair bit of Constitutional power/responsibilities), to little (e.g. Israel, where the Prime Minister is a lot more powerful). Where the president holds little executive/political power, his or her functions are primarily that of a symbolic figurehead, representative diplomat, national community leader, and (in many cases) Defender of the nation's Constitution and Umpire of the political process (when needed).
Full parliamentary republican systems[edit]
- Albania
- Armenia
- Austria
- Bangladesh[6]
- Bosnia and Herzegovina[7]
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Dominica
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Finland[8]
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Moldova
- Montenegro
- Nepal
- North Macedonia
- Pakistan
- Samoa
- Serbia
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Somalia
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Vanuatu
Mixed parliamentary republican systems[edit]
A combined head of state and government is elected by the legislature in the form of an executive president, however they are not subject to parliamentary confidence during their term (although their cabinet may be); the exceptions are South Africa, where the president may be forced to resign by the Parliament's will,[9] and Kiribati, where the president is popularly elected and a successful parliamentary motion of no confidence automatically triggers a new presidential election.
- Botswana[10]
- Marshall Islands[10]
- Federated States of Micronesia[11]
- Kiribati
- Myanmar[11]
- Nauru[10]
- San Marino[12]
- South Africa
- Suriname[11]
Directorial republican systems[edit]
In the directorial system a council jointly exercises both state functions and governmental powers (the council is the collective head of state and government). The council is elected by the parliament, but it is not subject to political confidence during its term which has a fixed duration.
Constitutional monarchies[edit]
These are systems in which the head of state is a constitutional monarch; the existence of their office and their ability to exercise their authority is established and restrained or held back by constitutional law. Activereports 6 license.
Constitutional monarchies with ceremonial/non executive monarchs[edit]
Systems in which a prime minister is the active head of the executive branch of government. In some cases the prime minister is also leader of the legislature, in other cases the executive branch is clearly separated from legislature although the entire cabinet or individual ministers must step down in the case of a vote of no confidence.[14][15][dubious] The head of state is a constitutional monarch who normally only exercises his or her powers (some monarchs are given a limited number of discretionary 'reserve' powers, only to be used in certain circumstances; many monarchs are given the responsibility to defend the nation's constitution) with the consent of the government, the people or/and their representatives (except in emergencies, e.g. a constitutional crisis or a political deadlock).
- Andorra[16]
- Antigua and Barbuda[17]
- Australia[17]
- Bahamas[17]
- Barbados[17]
- Belgium
- Belize[17]
- Cambodia
- Canada[17]
- Cook Islands[17][18]
- Denmark
- Grenada[17]
- Jamaica[17]
- Japan
- Lesotho
- Luxembourg
- Malaysia
- Netherlands
- New Zealand[17]
- Niue[17][18]
- Norway
- Papua New Guinea[17]
- Saint Kitts and Nevis[17]
- Saint Lucia[17]
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines[17]
- Solomon Islands[17]
- Spain
- Sweden
- Tuvalu[17]
- United Kingdom[17]
Constitutional monarchies with active monarchs[edit]
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- Bahrain
- Bhutan
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Liechtenstein
- Monaco
- Morocco
- Thailand
- Tonga
Note: Andorra may be considered a theocracy as the monarch is a joint head of state alongside a religious figure[16]
Absolute monarchies[edit]
Specifically, monarchies in which the monarch's exercise of power is unconstrained by any substantive constitutional law.
- Brunei
- Eswatini
- Oman
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- United Arab Emirates[19]
- Vatican City[20]
Note: Vatican City may be considered a theocracy as the monarch is elected by a religious body[20] Adobe creative suite cs6 key generator.
One-party states[edit]
States in which political power is by law concentrated within one political party whose operations are largely fused with the government hierarchy (as opposed to states where the law establishes a multi-party system but this fusion is not achieved anyway through electoral fraud or simple inertia). However, some do have elected governments.
- China, People's Republic of(Communist Party leads the United Front) (list)
- Cuba(Communist Party) (list)
- Eritrea(People's Front for Democracy and Justice) (list)
- Korea, North(Workers' Party leads the Democratic Front) (list)
- Laos(People's Revolutionary Party leads the Front for National Construction) (list)
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic(Polisario Front) (Politics of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)
- Vietnam(Communist Party leads the Fatherland Front) (list)
Military dictatorships[edit]
Jurassic park game download free. The nation's military control the organs of government and all high-ranking political executives are also members of the military hierarchy.
Transitional governments[edit]
States that have a system of government that is in transition or turmoil and are classified with the current direction of change.
- Libya(provisional government)
- Yemen(provisional government)
Systems of internal structure[edit]
Unitary states[edit]
A state governed as a single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions (sub-national units) exercise only the powers that the central government chooses to delegate.
The majority of states in the world have a unitary system of government. Of the 193 UN member states, 165 are governed as unitary states.
Centralised unitary states[edit]
Regionalised unitary states[edit]
States in which the central government has delegated some of its powers to regional authorities.
- Bolivia(9 regions, of which 9 are autonomous)
- China, People's Republic of(22 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 province-level municipalities, 2 special administrative regions, and 1 claimed province)
- China, Republic of(2 provinces, 6 special municipalities, 33 claimed provinces, 3 claimed special administrative regions, 2 regions, 12 claimed special municipalities, 14 leagues, and 4 special banners)
- France(18 regions, of which 6 are autonomous)
- Indonesia(34 provinces, of which 5 provinces have special status)
- Italy(20 regions, of which 5 are autonomous)
- Kingdom of the Netherlands(4 constituent countries)
- Philippines(one autonomous region subdivided into 5 provinces and 113 other provinces and independent cities grouped into 17 other non-autonomous regions)
- Portugal(2 autonomous regions)
- Spain(17 autonomous communities, 15 communities of common-regime, 1 community of chartered regime, 3 chartered provinces, 2 autonomous cities)
- Tanzania(21 mainland regions and Zanzibar)
- Ukraine(24 oblasts, 2 cities with special status, and Crimea)
- United Kingdom(4 constituent countries, 3 devolved administrations)
Federation[edit]
States in which the federal government shares power with semi-independent regional governments. The central government may or may not be (in theory) a creation of the regional governments.
- Argentina(23 provinces and one autonomous city: Buenos Aires)
- Australia(six states and three territories)
- Austria(nine states)
- Belgium(three regions and three linguistic communities)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina(two entities and one district)
- Brazil(26 states and the Federal District)
- Canada(ten provinces and three territories)
- Comoros(Anjouan, Grande Comore, Mohéli)
- Ethiopia(nine regions and two chartered cities)
- Germany(16 states)
- India(29 states and seven union territories)
- Iraq(18 governorates and one region: Kurdistan)
- Malaysia(13 states and three federal territories)
- Mexico(31 states and one federal district: Mexico City)
- Federated States of Micronesia(Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap)
- Nepal(seven provinces)
- Nigeria(36 states and one federal territory: Federal Capital Territory)
- Pakistan(4 provinces, 2 autonomous territories and 1 federal territory)
- Russia(46 oblasts, 22 republics, nine krais, four autonomous okrugs, three federal cities, one autonomous oblast)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis(Saint Kitts, Nevis)
- South Sudan(ten states)
- Sudan(17 states)
- Switzerland(26 cantons)
- United Arab Emirates(seven emirates)
- United States(50 states, one incorporated territory, and one federal district: District of Columbia)
- Venezuela(23 states, one capital district and one federal dependency)
Confederation[edit]
A union of sovereign states, united for purposes of common action often in relation to other states. Usually created by a treaty, confederations of states tend to be established for dealing with critical issues, such as defense, foreign relations, internal trade or currency, with the general government being required to provide support for all its members.
European Union[edit]
The exact political character of the European Union is debated, some arguing that it is sui generis (unique), but others arguing that it has features of a federation or a confederation. It has elements of intergovernmentalism, with the European Council acting as its collective 'president', and also elements of supranationalism, with the European Commission acting as its executive and bureaucracy.[21] But it is not easily placed in any of the above categories.[citation needed]
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- ^The President of China is legally a ceremonial office, but the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (de facto leader) has always held this office since 1993 except for the months of transition.
- ^Constitution of Belarus from 1994 (rev. 2004)
- ^ ab'Nazarbaev Signs Kazakh Constitutional Amendments Into Law'. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 10 March 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2017. For more information: please see Abdurasulov, Abdujalil (6 March 2017). 'Kazakhstan constitution: Will changes bring democracy?'. BBC News. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- ^Iran combines the forms of a presidential republic, with a president elected by universal suffrage; and a theocracy, with a Supreme Leader who is ultimately responsible for state policy, chosen by the elected Assembly of Experts. Candidates for both the Assembly of Experts and the presidency are vetted by the appointed Guardian Council.
- ^Kudelia, Serhiy (4 May 2018). 'Presidential activism and government termination in dual-executive Ukraine'. Post-Soviet Affairs. 34 (4): 246–261. doi:10.1080/1060586X.2018.1465251.
- ^In Bangladesh, a caretaker government during parliamentary elections. The Caretaker government is headed by a Chief Adviser and a group of neutral, non-partisan advisers chosen from the civil society. During this time, the president has jurisdiction over the defence and foreign affairs ministries.
- ^Collective presidency consisting of three members; one for each major ethnic group.
- ^Formerly a semi-presidential republic, it is now a parliamentary republic according to David Arter, First Chair of Politics at Aberdeen University, who in his 'Scandinavian Politics Today' (Manchester University Press, revised 2008 ISBN9780719078538), he quotes Nousiainen, Jaakko (June 2001). 'From semi-presidentialism to parliamentary government: political and constitutional developments in Finland'. Scandinavian Political Studies. 24 (2): 95–109. doi:10.1111/1467-9477.00048. as follows: 'There are hardly any grounds for the epithet 'semi-presidential'.' Arter's own conclusions are only slightly more nuanced: 'The adoption of a new constitution on 1 March 2000 meant that Finland was no longer a case of semi-presidential government other than in the minimalist sense of a situation where a popularly elected fixed-term president exists alongside a prime minister and cabinet who are responsible to parliament (Elgie 2004: 317)'. According to the Finnish Constitution, the President has no possibility to rule the government without the ministerial approval, and substantially has not the power to disband the parliament under its own desire. Finland is actually represented by its Prime Minister, and not by its President, in the Council of the Heads of State and Government of the European Union. The 2012 constitutional amendments reduced the powers of the President even further.
- ^'Constitution of South Africa'. Constitute. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
- ^ abcCombines aspects of a presidential system with those of a parliamentary system. The president is elected by parliament and holds a parliamentary seat, much like a prime minister, but is immune from a vote of no confidence (but not their cabinet), unlike a prime minister.
- ^ abcdeCombines aspects of a presidential system with those of a parliamentary system. The president is elected by parliament but does not hold a parliamentary seat, and is immune from a vote of no confidence (as well is their cabinet), unlike a prime minister.
- ^'Scheda paese Repubblica di San Marino'(PDF) (in Italian). Segreteria di Stato Affari esteri. July 2012. p. 5.
- ^ abThe President of Switzerland serves in a primus inter pares capacity amongst the Swiss Federal Council, the seven-member executive council which constitutes both the presidency and the government.
- ^Norwegian Parliament web page
- ^CIA factbook on Norway
- ^ abThe Bishop of Urgell and President of France serve as ex officioco-princes who are have their interests known through a representative.
- ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrOne of sixteen constitutional monarchies which recognize Elizabeth II as head of state, who presides over an independent government. She is titled separately in each country (e.g. Queen of Australia), and notionally appoints a Governor-General (GG) to each country other than the United Kingdom to act as her representative. The prime minister (PM) is the active head of the executive branch of government and also leader of the legislature. These countries may be known as 'Commonwealth realms'.
In many cases, the Governor-General or monarch has a lot more theoretical, or constitutional, powers than they actually exercise, except on the advice of elected officials, per constitutional convention. For example, the Constitution of Australia makes the GG the head of the executive branch (including commander-in-chief of the armed forces), although they seldom ever use this power, except on the advice of elected officials, especially the PM, which makes the PM the de facto head of government. - ^ abThe Cook Islands and Niue are under the sovereignty of the Monarch of New Zealand as self-governing states in free association with New Zealand. New Zealand and its associated states, along with Tokelau and the Ross Dependency, comprise the Realm of New Zealand.
- ^The UAE's constitution establishes the state as a federation of emirates, with the federal president drawn from hereditary emirs, but each emirate in turn functions as an absolute monarchy
- ^ abThe Vatican is an elective absolute monarchy and a Roman Catholic theocracy; its monarch, the Pope, is the head of the global Roman Catholic Church. His power within the Vatican City State is unlimited by any constitution, but all persons resident within the Vatican have consented to obey the Pope, either by virtue of being ordained Catholic clergy or members of the Swiss Guard.
- ^For more detailed discussion, see John McCormick, European Union Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Chapters 1 and 2.
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- 3Forms of government by power ideology
- 4Forms of government by socio-political attributes
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Forms of government by power structure[edit]
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Anarchy | A society without a publicly enforced government or political authority.[1][2] Sometimes said to be non-governance; it is a structure which strives for non-hierarchical, voluntary associations among agents. Anarchy is a situation where there is no state. This can be a natural, temporary result of civil war in a country, when an established state has been destroyed and the region is in a transitional period without definitive leadership.[3] Alternatively, it has been presented as a viable long term choice by individuals known as anarchists who oppose the state and other forms of coercive hierarchies. These individuals typically think people should organize in non-hierarchical, voluntary associations where people voluntarily help each other.[4] There are a variety of forms of anarchy that attempt to avoid the use of coercion, violence, force and authority, while still producing a productive and desirable society.[5][6] | |
Confederation | A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a union of sovereign states, united for purposes of common action often in relation to other states. Usually created by a treaty, confederations of states tend to be established for dealing with critical issues, such as defense, foreign relations, internal trade or currency, with the general government being required to provide support for all its members. Confederalism represents a main form of inter-governmentalism, this being defined as ‘any form of interaction between states which takes place on the basis of sovereign independence or government. Confederation is almost as a Federation with the Federal Government being as a combination or alliance of all the states. |
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Federation | A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing states or regions under a central (federal) government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the component states, as well as the division of power between them and the central government, is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a unilateral decision of either party, the states or the federal political body. Alternatively, federation is a form of government in which sovereign power is formally divided between a central authority and a number of constituent regions so that each region retains some degree of control over its internal affairs. | |
Unitary State | A unitary state is a state governed as a single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions (sub-national units) exercise only the powers that the central government chooses to delegate. The majority of states in the world have a unitary system of government. Of the 193 UN member states, 165 are governed as unitary states. |
Forms of government by power source[edit]
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Autocracy | Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection). Absolute monarchy (such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Brunei and Eswatini) and dictatorships (also including North Korea) are the main modern day forms of autocracy. | |
Democracy | Democracy, meaning 'rule of the people', is a system of government in which the citizens exercise power directly or elect representatives from among themselves to form a governing body, such as a parliament. Democracy is sometimes referred to as 'rule of the majority'. Democracy is a system of processing conflicts in which outcomes depend on what participants do, but no single force controls what occurs and its outcomes. This includes citizens being able to vote for different laws and leaders. | |
Oligarchy | Oligarchy, meaning 'rule of the few', is a form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. These people might be distinguished by nobility, wealth, family ties, education or corporate, religious or military control. Such states are often controlled by families who typically pass their influence from one generation to the next, but inheritance is not a necessary condition for the application of this term. |
Types of democracy[edit]
In democracies, large proportions of the population are provided the means either to make decisions themselves or to elect representatives to make those decisions instead. Usually, though not necessarily (see Demarchy), this means voting. Significant in most vote-based democracies are political parties: groups of people with similar ideas about how a country or region should be governed. Different political parties will have different ideas about how the government should handle different problems.
Note: These categories are not exclusive.
Note: Most countries start as Democracies, but then it's abused, which transforms the government into a autocracy or oligarchy. Most autocracies or oligarchies still call themselves democracies. Ex: Democratic People's Republic of North Korea
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Demarchy | Variant of democracy; government in which the state is governed by randomly selected decision makers who have been selected by sortition (lot) from a broadly inclusive pool of eligible citizens. These groups, sometimes termed 'policy juries', 'citizens' juries', or 'consensus conferences', deliberately make decisions about public policies in much the same way that juries decide criminal cases. Demarchy, in theory, could overcome some of the functional problems of conventional representative democracy, which is widely subject to manipulation by special interests and a division between professional policymakers (politicians and lobbyists) vs. a largely passive, uninvolved and often uninformed electorate. According to Australian philosopher John Burnheim, random selection of policymakers would make it easier for everyday citizens to meaningfully participate, and harder for special interests to corrupt the process. More generally, random selection of decision makers from a larger group is known as sortition (from the Latin base for lottery). The Athenian democracy made much use of sortition, with nearly all government offices filled by lottery (of full citizens) rather than by election. Candidates were almost always male, Greek, educated citizens holding a minimum of wealth and status. |
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Direct democracy | Variant of democracy; government in which the people represent themselves and vote directly for new laws and public policy. | Swisscantons of Appenzell Innerrhoden and Glarus |
Electocracy | Variant of democracy; a form of representative democracy where citizens are able to vote for their government but cannot participate directly in governmental decision making and where the government does not share any power almost as the government has absolute power |
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Liberal democracy | Variant of democracy; a form of government in which representative democracy operates under the principles of liberalism. It is characterised by fair, free, and competitive elections between multiple distinctpolitical parties, a separation of powers into different branches of government, the rule of law in everyday life as part of an open society, and the protection of human rights and civil liberties for all persons. To define the system in practice, liberal democracies often draw upon a constitution, either formally written or uncodified, to delineate the powers of government and enshrine the social contract. After a period of sustained expansion throughout the 20th century, liberal democracy became the predominant political system in the world. A liberal democracy may take various constitutional forms: it may be a republic, such as France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, or the United States; or a constitutional monarchy, such as Japan or Spain. It may have a presidential system (Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, or the United States), a semi-presidential system (France, or Portugal), or a parliamentary system (Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, India, Italy, or New Zealand). | |
Liquid democracy | Variant of democracy; government in which the people represent themselves or choose to temporarily delegate their vote to another voter to vote for new laws and public policy. | Experiments have mostly been conducted on a local-level or exclusively through online platforms |
Representative democracy | Variant of democracy; wherein the people or citizens of a country elect representatives to create and implement public policy in place of active participation by the people. | Almost all democratic systems |
Social democracy | Variant of democracy; social democracy rejects the 'either/or' phobiocratic/polarization interpretation of capitalism versus socialism. It claims that fostering a progressive evolution of capitalism will gradually result in the evolution of capitalist economy into socialist economy. Social democracy argues that all citizens should be legally entitled to certain social rights. These are made up of universal access to public services such as: education, health care, workers' compensation, public transportation, and other services including child care and care for the elderly. Social democracy is connected with the trade union labour movement and supports collective bargaining rights for workers. Contemporary social democracy advocates freedom from discrimination based on differences of: ability/disability, age, ethnicity, sex, gender, language, race, religion, sexual orientation, and social class. |
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Soviet democracy | Variant of democracy; The citizens are governing by directly elected councils. The councils are directly responsible to their electors and are bound by their instructions. Such an imperative mandate is in contrast to a free mandate, in which the elected delegates are only responsible to their conscience. Delegates may accordingly be dismissed from their post at any time or be voted out (recall). | In some degree in Russia and the Soviet Union between 1905 and 1918 |
Totalitarian democracy | Variant of democracy; a form of electocracy in which lawfully elected representatives maintain the integrity of a nation state whose citizens, while granted the right to vote, have little or no participation in the decision-making process of the government. |
Types of oligarchy[edit]
Hp deskjet f4500 driver download mac. Oligarchies are societies controlled and organised by a small class of privileged people, with no intervention from the most part of society; this small elite is defined as sharing some common trait.
De jure democratic governments with a de facto oligarchy are ruled by a small group of segregated, powerful or influential people who usually share similar interests or family relations. These people may spread power and elect candidates equally or not equally. An oligarchy is different from a true democracy because very few people are given the chance to change things. An oligarchy does not have to be hereditary or monarchic. An oligarchy does not have one clear ruler but several rulers.
Some historical examples of oligarchy are the Roman Republic, in which only males of the nobility could run for office and only wealthy males could vote, and the Athenian democracy, which used sortition to elect candidates, almost always male, Greek, educated citizens holding a minimum of land, wealth and status. Some critics of capitalism and/or representative democracy think of the United States and the United Kingdom as oligarchies.
Note: These categories are not exclusive.
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Aristocracy | Rule by the nobility; a system of governance where political power is in the hands of a small class of privileged individuals who claim a higher birth than the rest of society. |
Ergatocracy | Rule by the proletariat, the workers, or the working class. Examples of ergatocracy include communist revolutionaries and rebels which control most of society and create an alternative economy for people and workers. See Dictatorship of the proletariat. |
Geniocracy | Rule by the intelligent; a system of governance where creativity, innovation, intelligence and wisdom are required for those who wish to govern. Comparable to noocracy. |
Kraterocracy | Rule by the strong; a system of governance where those who are strong enough to seize power through physical force, social maneuvering or political cunning. |
Kritarchy | Rule by various judges, the kritarchs; a system of governance composed of law enforcement institutions in which the state and the legal systems are traditionally or constitutionally the same entity. The kritarchs, magistrates and other adjudicators have the legal power to legislate and administer the enforcement of government laws in addition to the interposition of laws and the resolution of disputes. (Not to be confused with 'judiciary' or 'judicial system'.) Somalia, ruled by judges with the tradition of xeer,[12] as well as the Islamic Courts Union, is a historical example.[13] |
Meritocracy | Rule by the meritorious; a system of governance where groups are selected on the basis of people's ability, knowledge in a given area, and contributions to society. |
Netocracy | Rule by social connections; a term invented by the editorial board of the American technology magazine Wired in the early 1990s. A portmanteau of Internet and aristocracy, netocracy refers to a perceived global upper-class that bases its power on a technological advantage and networking skills, in comparison to what is portrayed as a bourgeoisie of a gradually diminishing importance. The netocracy concept has been compared with Richard Florida's concept of the creative class. Bard and Söderqvist have also defined an under-class in opposition to the netocracy, which they refer to as the consumitariat. |
Noocracy | Rule by the wise; a system of governance in which decision making is in the hands of philosophers. (advocated by Plato) |
Plutocracy | Rule by the wealthy; a system wherein governance is indebted to, dependent upon or heavily influenced by the desires of the rich. Plutocratic influence can alter any form of government. For instance, in a republic, if a significant number of elected representative positions are dependent upon financial support from wealthy sources, it is a plutocratic republic. |
Particracy | Rule by a dominant political party (or parties). |
Stratocracy | Rule by military service; a system of governance composed of military government in which the state and the military are traditionally or constitutionally the same entity. Citizens with mandatory or voluntary active military service or who have been honorably discharged have the right to govern. (Therefore, stratocracy is not to be confused with 'military junta' or 'military dictatorship'.) The Spartancity-state is a historical example; its social system and constitution were completely focused on military training and excellence. Stratocratic ideology often attaches to the honor-oriented timocracy. |
Technocracy | Rule by the educated or technical experts; a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise in technology would be in control of all decision making. Doctors, engineers, scientists, professionals and technologists who have knowledge, expertise, or skills would compose the governing body instead of politicians, businessmen and economists.[14] In a technocracy, decision makers would be selected based upon how knowledgeable and skillful they are in their field. |
Theocracy | Rule by a religious elite; a system of governance composed of religious institutions in which the state and the church are traditionally or constitutionally the same entity. The Vatican's (see Pope), Iran's (see Supreme Leader), Caliphates and other Islamic states are historically considered theocracies. |
Timocracy | Rule by the honourable; a system of governance ruled by honorable citizens and property owners. Socrates defines a timocracy as a government ruled by people who love honour and are selected according to the degree of honour they hold in society. This form of timocracy is very similar to meritocracy, in the sense that individuals of outstanding character or faculty are placed in the seat of power. |
Types of autocracy[edit]
Autocracies are ruled by a single entity with absolute power, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regular mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for implicit threat). That entity may be an individual, as in a dictatorship or it may be a group, as in a one-party state. The word despotism means to 'rule in the fashion of despots' and is often used to describe autocracy.
Historical examples of autocracy include the Roman Empire, Nazi Germany and Soviet Union.
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Civilian Dictatorship | A dictatorship where power resides in the hands of one single person or polity. That person may be, for example, an absolute monarch or a dictator, but can also be an elected president. The Roman Republic made dictators to lead during times of war; but the Roman dictators only held power for a small time. In modern times, an autocrat's rule is one that not stopped by any rules of law, constitutions, or other social and political institutions. After World War II, many governments in Latin America, Asia, and Africa were ruled by autocratic governments. Examples of dictators include: Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Idi Amin, Muammar Gaddafi, and Gamal Abdul Nasser. |
Military Dictatorship | A dictatorship primarily enforced by the military. Military dictators are different from civilian dictators for a number of reasons: their motivations for seizing power, the institutions through which they organize their rule, and the ways in which they leave power. Often viewing itself as saving the nation from the corrupt or myopic civilian politicians, a military dictatorship justifies its position as “neutral” arbiters on the basis of their membership within the armed forces. For example, many juntas adopt titles, such as “National Redemption Council', “Committee of National Restoration', or “National Liberation Committee'. Military leaders often rule as a junta, selecting one of them as the head. |
Pejorative attributes[edit]
Regardless of the form of government, the actual governance may be influenced by sectors with political power which are not part of the formal government. These are terms that highlight certain actions of the governors, such as corruption, demagoguery, or fear mongering that may disrupt the intended way of working of the government if they are widespread enough.
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Banana republic | A politically unstable and kleptocratic government that economically depends upon the exports of a limited resource (fruits, minerals), and usually features a society composed of stratifiedsocial classes, such as a great, impoverished ergatocracy and a ruling plutocracy, composed of the aristocracy of business, politics, and the military.[15] In political science, the term banana republic denotes a country dependent upon limited primary-sector productions, which is ruled by a plutocracy who exploit the national economy by means of a politico-economic oligarchy.[16] In American literature, the term banana republic originally denoted the fictional Republic of Anchuria, a servile dictatorship that abetted, or supported for kickbacks, the exploitation of large-scale plantation agriculture, especially banana cultivation.[16] In U.S. politics, the term banana republic is a pejorative political descriptor coined by the American writer O. Henry in Cabbages and Kings (1904), a book of thematically related short stories derived from his 1896–1897 residence in Honduras, where he was hiding from U.S. law for bank embezzlement.[17] |
Bankocracy | Rule by banks;[18] a system of governance with excessive power or influence of banks and other financial authorities on public policy-making. It can also refer to a form of government where financial institutions rule society. |
Corporatocracy | Rule by corporations; a system of governance where an economic and political system is controlled by corporations or corporate interests.[19] Its use is generally pejorative. Examples include company rule in India and business voters for the City of London Corporation. |
Kakistocracy | Rule by the stupid; a system of governance where the worst or least-qualified citizens govern or dictate policies. Due to human nature being inherently flawed, it has been suggested that every government which has ever existed has been a prime example of kakistocracy. |
Kleptocracy | Rule by thieves; a system of governance where its officials and the ruling class in general pursue personal wealth and political power at the expense of the wider population. In strict terms kleptocracy is not a form of government but a characteristic of a government engaged in such behavior. Examples include Mexico as being considered a 'narcokleptocracy', (narco-state) since its democratic government is perceived to be corrupted by those who profit from trade in illegal drugs smuggled into the United States. |
Nepotocracy | Rule by nephews; favouritism granted to relatives regardless of merit; a system of governance in which importance is given to the relatives of those already in power, like a nephew (where the word comes from). In such governments even if the relatives aren't qualified they are given positions of authority just because they know someone who already has authority. Pope Alexander VI (Borgia) was accused of this. |
Ochlocracy | Rule by the crowd; a system of governance where mob rule is government by mob or a mass of people, or the intimidation of legitimate authorities. As a pejorative for majoritarianism, it is akin to the Latin phrase mobile vulgus meaning 'the fickle crowd', from which the English term 'mob' was originally derived in the 1680s. Ochlocratic governments are often a democracy spoiled by demagoguery, 'tyranny of the majority' and the rule of passion over reason; such governments can be as oppressive as autocratic tyrants. Ochlocracy is synonymous in meaning and usage to the modern, informal term 'mobocracy'. |
Other attributes[edit]
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Adhocracy | Rule by a government based on relatively disorganised principles and institutions as compared to a bureaucracy, its exact opposite. |
Anocracy | A regime type where power is not vested in public institutions (as in a normal democracy) but spread amongst elite groups who are constantly competing with each other for power. Examples of anocracies in Africa include the warlords of Somalia and the shared governments in Kenya and Zimbabwe. Anocracies are situated midway between an autocracy and a democracy.[20] The Polity IV dataset[clarification needed] recognised anocracy as a category. In that dataset, anocracies are exactly in the middle between autocracies and democracies. Often the word is defined more broadly. For example, a 2010 International Alert publication defined anocracies as 'countries that are neither autocratic nor democratic, most of which are making the risky transition between autocracy and democracy'.[21] Alert noted that the number of anocracies had increased substantially since the end of the Cold War. Anocracy is not surprisingly the least resilient political system to short-term shocks: it creates the promise but not yet the actuality of an inclusive and effective political economy, and threatens members of the established elite; and is therefore very vulnerable to disruption and armed violence. |
Band society | Rule by a government based on small (usually family) unit with a semi-informal hierarchy, with strongest (either physical strength or strength of character) as leader. Very much like a pack seen in other animals, such as wolves. |
Bureaucracy | Rule by a system of governance with many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials |
Cybersynacy | Ruled by a data fed group of secluded individuals that regulates aspects of public and private life using data feeds and technology having no interactivity with the citizens but using 'facts only' to decide direction. |
Nomocracy | Rule by a government under the sovereignty of rational laws and civic right as opposed to one under theocratic systems of government. In a nomocracy, ultimate and final authority (sovereignty) exists in the law. |
Forms of government by power ideology[edit]
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Constitutional | A constitutional government is a government which powers are limited by a constitution. A constititution is normally used so the people of that government has civil and ethical rights. |
Monarchy | A monarchy is a form of government in which a group, generally a family representing a dynasty, embodies the country's national identity and its head, the monarch, exercises the role of sovereignty. The actual power of the monarch may vary from purely symbolic (crowned republic), to partial and restricted (constitutional monarchy), to completely autocratic (absolute monarchy). Traditionally the monarch's post is inherited and lasts until death or abdication. In contrast, elective monarchies require the monarch to be elected. Both types have further variations as there are widely divergent structures and traditions defining monarchy. For example, in some[which?]elected monarchies only pedigrees are taken into account for eligibility of the next ruler, whereas many hereditary monarchies impose requirements regarding the religion, age, gender, mental capacity, etc. Occasionally this might create a situation of rival claimants whose legitimacy is subject to effective election. There have been cases where the term of a monarch's reign is either fixed in years or continues until certain goals are achieved: an invasion being repulsed, for instance. |
Republic | A republic (Latin: res publica) is a form of government in which the country is considered a 'public matter', not the private concern or property of the rulers. The primary positions of power within a republic are not inherited, but are attained through elections expressing the consent of the governed. Such leadership positions are therefore expected to fairly represent the citizen body. It is a form of government under which the head of state is not a monarch. In American English, the definition of a republic can also refer specifically to a government in which elected individuals represent the citizen body, known elsewhere as a representative democracy (a democratic republic) and exercise power according to the rule of law (a constitutional republic). |
Types of monarchy[edit]
Countries with monarchy attributes are those where a family or group of families (rarely another type of group), called the royalty, represents national identity, with power traditionally assigned to one of its individuals, called the monarch, who mostly rule kingdoms. The actual role of the monarch and other members of royalty varies from purely symbolical (crowned republic) to partial and restricted (constitutional monarchy) to completely despotic (absolute monarchy). Traditionally and in most cases, the post of the monarch is inherited, but there are also elective monarchies where the monarch is elected.
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Absolute monarchy | A traditional and historical system where the monarch exercises ultimate governing authority as head of state and head of government. Many nations of Europe during the Middle Ages were absolute monarchies. Modern examples include mainly Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Brunei and one African country, Eswatini. |
Constitutional monarchy | Also called parliamentary monarchy, the monarch's powers are limited by law or by a formal constitution,[22][23] usually assigning them to those of the head of state. Many modern developed countries, including the United Kingdom, Norway, Netherlands, Australia, Canada, Spain and Japan, are constitutional monarchy systems. |
Crowned republic | A form of government where the monarch (and family) is an official ceremonial entity with no political power. The royal family and the monarch are intended to represent the country and may perform speeches or attend an important ceremonial events as a symbolical guide to the people, but hold no actual power in decision-making, appointments, et cetera. |
Elective monarchy | A form of government where the monarch is elected, a modern example being the King of Cambodia, who is chosen by the Royal Council of the Throne; Vatican City is also often considered a modern elective monarchy. |
Types of republic[edit]
Rule by a form of government in which the people, or some significant portion of them, have supreme control over the government and where offices of state are elected or chosen by elected people.[24][25] A common simplified definition of a republic is a government where the head of state is not a monarch.[26][27]Montesquieu included both democracies, where all the people have a share in rule, and aristocracies or oligarchies, where only some of the people rule, as republican forms of government.[28]
Note: These categories are not exclusive.
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Constitutional republic | Republics where there is rule by a government whose powers are limited by law or a formal constitution (an official document establishing the exact powers and restrictions of a nation and its government), and chosen by a vote amongst the populace. Typically, laws cannot be passed which violate said constitution, unless the constitution itself is altered by law. This theoretically serves to protect minority groups from being subjected to the tyranny of the majority, or mob rule. Examples include the United States, South Africa, India, etc. |
Democratic republic | Republics where the laws are ultimately decided by popular vote, whether by a body of elected representatives or directly by the public, and there is no restriction on which laws are passed so long as they have majority support. Constitutional law is either non-existent or poses little obstacle to legislation. |
Federal republic | Republics that are a federation of states or provinces, where there is a national (federal) law encompassing the nation as a whole but where each state or province is free to legislate and enforce its own laws and affairs so long as they don't conflict with federal law. Examples include United States, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Germany, India, Mexico, Russia, and Switzerland. |
Islamic Republic | Republics governed in accordance with Islamic law. Examples include Afghanistan, Iran, Mauritania, and Pakistan. |
Parliamentary republic | Republics, like Germany, India or Singapore, with an elected head of state, but where the head of state and head of government are kept separate with the head of government retaining most executive powers, or a head of state akin to a head of government, elected by a parliament. |
Presidential Republic | Republics with an elected head of state, where the head of state is also the head of the government. Examples include United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Indonesia. |
People's republic | Republics that include countries like China and Vietnam that are de jure governed for and by the people, but with no direct elections. The term People's Republic is used to differentiate themselves from the earlier republic of their countries before the people's revolution, like the Republic of China. |
Forms of government by socio-political attributes[edit]
By socio-economic attributes[edit]
Historically, most political systems originated as socioeconomicideologies. Experience with those movements in power and the strong ties they may have to particular forms of government can cause them to be considered as forms of government in themselves.
Note: These categories are not exclusive.
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Anarchism | A system that advocates self-governed societies based on voluntary institutions. These are often described as stateless societies, although several authors have defined them more specifically as institutions based on non-hierarchical or free associations, while others have advocated for stateless societies with the inclusion of private property, property rights and hierarchical groups, so long as membership and association with those groups are entirely voluntary. Anarchism holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary and/or harmful. |
Capitalism | A system in which the means of production (machines, tools, factories, etc.) are owned by private individuals, workers then negotiate with those individuals to use those means of production in exchange for a portion of what they produce, usually in the form of capital (money). The owners of the means of production are entitled to whatever portion of the products of the workers' labor that is agreed upon by the two parties. |
Colonialism | A system in which a native group (or their lands and resources) is subjugated by an external political power for their own economic and/or political benefit. |
Communism | A socialist system in which the means of production are commonly owned (either by the people directly, through the commune, or by a communist state or society), and production is undertaken for use, rather than for profit.[29][30] Communist society is thus, in theory, stateless, classless, moneyless, and democratic — it is usually regarded as the 'final form' of a socialist or anarchist society. |
Despotism | A system in which the laws and resources of a nation are controlled by one individual, usually a monarch or dictator, who holds absolute political power. Examples include the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt and the Roman emperors. (Often used as a slur by republicans to refer to all monarchical systems, monarchists conversely use the term to refer to systems in which monarchs have overstepped their boundaries, or to refer to some of the more totalitarian republican systems) |
Distributism | A variant of capitalism which views widespread property ownership as fundamental right;[31] the means of production are spread as widely as possible rather than being centralized under the control of the state (as in state socialism), or a few individuals/corporations (as in what proponents of distributism call 'crony capitalism')[32] Distributism fundamentally opposes socialism and capitalism,[33][34] which distributists view as equally flawed and exploitative. In contrast, distributism seeks to subordinate economic activity to human life as a whole, to our spiritual life, our intellectual life, our family life'.[35] |
Feudalism | A system of land ownership and duties common to medieval Europe. Under feudalism, all the land in a kingdom belonged to the king. However, the king would give some of the land to the lords or nobles who fought for him. These presents of land were called manors. Then the nobles gave some of their land to vassals. The vassals then had to do duties for the nobles. The lands of vassals were called fiefs. A similar system is the Iqta, used by medieval Islamic societies of the middle east and north Africa. This functioned much like the feudal system but generally had titles that weren't granted to a family dynasty but to individuals at the behest of the sultan and generally only required a tax from the lower classes, instead of military service and/or manual labour like in the feudal system. |
Minarchism | A variant of capitalism which advocates for the State to exist solely to provide a very small number of services. A popular model of the State proposed by minarchists is known as the night-watchman state, in which the only governmental functions are to protect citizens from aggression, theft, breach of contract, and fraud as defined by property laws, limiting it to three institutions: the military, the police, and courts. |
Monarchism | A system in which the government is headed by an agreed upon head of the nobility who is known as the monarch, usually in the form of a king or emperor (but also less commonly a queen or empress). In most monarchical systems the position of monarch is one inherited from a previous ruler by bloodline or marriage, but in other cases it may be a position elected by the nobility themselves, as was the case in the ancient Roman Kingdom and the medieval Holy Roman Empire. |
Republicanism | A system in which the laws and governmental policies of the state are considered a 'public matter' and decided by the citizens of the society, whoever they may be. Most modern nation-states are examples of republics, but other examples include those of ancient Rome and Athens. |
Socialism | A system in which workers, democratically and/or socially own the means of production.[36] The economic framework may be decentralized and self-managed in autonomous economic units, as in libertarian systems, or centrallyplanned, as in authoritarian systems.[37]Public services such as healthcare and education would be commonly, collectively, and/or state owned. |
Totalitarianism | A system in which the land and resources of a nation are controlled by a centralised authoritarianstate that holds absolute political power, usually under a dictatorship or single political party. Examples include the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. |
Tribalism | A system based on a small complex society of varying degrees of centralisation that is led by an individual known as a chief. |
By geo-cultural attributes[edit]
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Governments can also be categorized based on their size and scope of influence:
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National Government | The government of a nation-state and is a characteristic of a unitary state. This is the same thing as a federal government which may have distinct powers at various levels authorized or delegated to it by its member states, though the adjective 'central' is sometimes used to describe it. The structure of central governments varies. Many countries have created autonomous regions by delegating powers from the central government to governments at a sub national level, such as a regional, state or local level. Based on a broad definition of a basic political system, there are two or more levels of government that exist within an established territory and govern through common institutions with overlapping or shared powers as prescribed by a constitution or other law. |
City-State | A sovereign state, also described as a type of small independent country, that usually consists of a single city and its dependent territories. Historically, this included cities such as Rome, Athens, Carthage, and the Italian city-states during the Renaissance. Today only a handful of sovereign city-states exist, with some disagreement as to which are city-states. A great deal of consensus exists that the term properly applies currently to Singapore, Monaco, and Vatican City. City states are also sometimes called micro-states which however also includes other configurations of very small countries. |
Commune | From the Medieval Latincommunia. An intentional community of people living together, sharing common interests, often having common values and beliefs, as well as shared property, possessions, resources, and, in some communes, work, income or assets. |
Intergovernmental Organisations | Also known as international governmental organizations (IGOs): the type of organization most closely associated with the term 'international organization', these are organizations that are made up primarily of sovereign states (referred to as member states). Notable examples include the United Nations (UN), Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Council of Europe (COE), International Labour Organization (ILO) and International Police Organization (INTERPOL). The UN has used the term 'intergovernmental organization' instead of 'international organization' for clarity. |
World Government | The notion of a common political authority for all of humanity, yielding a global government and a single state that exercises authority over the entire Earth. Such a government could come into existence either through violent and compulsory world domination or through peaceful and voluntary supranational union. |
Forms of government by other attributes[edit]
By significant constitutional attributes[edit]
Certain major characteristics are defining of certain types; others are historically associated with certain types of government.
- Civilian control of the military vs. stratocracy
- Majority rule or parliamentary sovereignty vs. constitution or bill of rights with separation of powers and supermajority rules to prevent tyranny of the majority and protect minority rights
- Rule according to higher law (unwritten ethical principles) vs. written constitutionalism
- Separation of church and state or free church vs. state religion
- Totalitarianism or authoritarianism vs. libertarianism
By approach to regional autonomy[edit]
This list focuses on differing approaches that political systems take to the distribution of sovereignty, and the autonomy of regions within the state.
- Sovereignty located exclusively at the centre of political jurisdiction.
- Sovereignty located at the centre and in peripheral areas.
- Federation and federal republic
- Diverging degrees of sovereignty.
- Decentralisation and devolution (powers redistributed from central to regional or local governments)
- Unrecognized state
Theoretical and speculative attributes[edit]
These currently have no citable real-world examples outside of fiction.
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Corporate republic | Theoretical form of government occasionally hypothesised in works of science fiction, though some historical nations such as medieval Florence might be said to have been governed as corporate republics. The colonial megacorporations such as the Dutch East India Company should possibly be considered corporate states, being semi-sovereign with the power to wage war and establish colonies. While retaining some semblance of republican government, a corporate republic would be run primarily like a business, involving a board of directors and executives. Utilities, including hospitals, schools, the military, and the police force, would be privatised. The social welfare function carried out by the state is instead carried out by corporations in the form of benefits to employees. Although corporate republics do not exist officially in the modern world, they are often used in works of fiction or political commentary as a warning of the perceived dangers of unbridled capitalism. In such works, they usually arise when a single, vastly powerful corporation deposes a weak government, over time or in a coup d'état. Some political scientists have also considered state socialist nations to be forms of corporate republics, with the state assuming full control of all economic and political life and establishing a monopoly on everything within national boundaries – effectively making the state itself amount to a giant corporation. |
Cyberocracy | Theoretical form of government that rules by the effective use of information |
Magocracy | Rule by a government with the highest and main authority being either a magician, sage, sorcerer, wizard, witch, or some other magic user. This is often similar to a theocratic structured regime and is largely portrayed in fiction and fantasy genre categories. |
Uniocracy | Ruled by a singularity of all human minds connected via some form of technical or non-technical telepathy acting as a form of super computer to make decisions based on shared patterned experiences to deliver fair and accurate decisions to problems as they arrive. Also known as the 'Hive Mind' principle, it differs from voting in that each person would make a decision while in the 'hive' the synapses of all minds work together following a longer path of memories to make 'one' decision. |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
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/ˌkôrpərəˈtäkrəsē/ . a society or system that is governed or controlled by corporations:
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Marx distinguishes between two phases of marketless communism: an initial phase, with labor vouchers, and a higher phase, with free access.
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Communism would mean free distribution of goods and services. The communist slogan, 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs' (as opposed to 'work') would then rule
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