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Types of Government
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| anarchy | a political theory based on a utopia in which voluntary cooperation and the free association of individuals and groups are the main precepts |
| aristocracy | a government based on the rule of a small privileged class |
| authoritarian regime | power is concentrated in a leader or elite group that has no constitutional obligation to the people |
| autocracy | a community or country ruled by a single person with unlimited authority |
| democracy | a system of government in which the people rule through reps whom they elect |
| democracy direct | the people directly exercise their power in open assemblies |
| democracy parliamentary | a prime minister is also the chief executive officer |
| democracy participatory | a general model for political social and economic decision making based on the assumption that a decision making is most effective when those people most affected by the decision outcomes directly participate in the process |
| dictatorship | the arbitrary rule by an individual who is not constitutionally responsible to the people or their elected reps |
| federal government | a form of government in which the state serves public instead of private interests |
| monarchy | a form of government based on the rule of a single person who is normally chosen by hereditary succession to rule for life |
| oligarchy | a small group of socially and economically elite citizens that rules a country or other political unit |
| plutocracy | a negative term that denotes government by the rich |
| representative government | a political system in which the people express their will indirectly by electing reps who conduct the government for them |
| republic | a form of gov. characterized by pop. sovereginty |
| theocracy | a government ruled by religious authorities |
| totalitarian regime | force is used to control the nation's political, society and culture |
| tyranny | an oppressive gov in which a single individual rules on behalf of his or her own interests is a tyranny |
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