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| x Federal republic | United States |
A federal republic is a federation of states with a republican form of government. A federation is the central government. The states in a federation also maintain the federation. Usage of the term republic is inconsistent but, as a minimum, it...
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| Austria | |||
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| x Monarchy |
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Sweden |
A monarchy is a form of government in which supreme power is absolutely or nominally lodged with an individual, who is the head of state, often for life or until abdication, and "is wholly set apart from all other members of the state." The person...
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| Denmark | |||
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| x Military dictatorship |
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Libya |
A military dictatorship is a form of government wherein the political power resides with the military. It is similar but not identical to a stratocracy, a state ruled directly by the military. Like any dictatorship, a military dictatorship may be...
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| x Constitution |
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Mexico |
A constitution is set of rules for government—often codified as a written document—that establishes principles of an autonomous political entity. In the case of countries, this term refers specifically to a national constitution defining the...
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| x Parliamentary system |
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Canada |
A parliamentary system is a system of government wherein the ministers of the executive branch are drawn from the legislature, and are accountable to that body, such that the executive and legislative branches are intertwined. In such a system, the...
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| Ukraine | |||
| Bulgaria | |||
| Israel | |||
| Antigua and Barbuda | |||
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| x Republic |
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Vanuatu |
A republic is a state or country that is not led by a hereditary monarch, in which the people (or at least a part of its people) have an impact on its government. The word 'republic' is derived from the Latin phrase res publica which can be...
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| Finland | |||
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| France | |||
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| x Semi-presidential system |
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Ukraine |
The semi-presidential system, also known as the presidential-parliamentary system, or premier-presidential system, is a system of government in which a president and a prime minister are both active participants in the day-to-day administration of...
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| Guyana | |||
| Montenegro | |||
| Romania | |||
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| x Colony of British Columbia |
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The Colony of British Columbia was a crown colony in British North America from 1858 until 1871. At its creation, it physically constituted approximately half the present day Canadian province of British Columbia, since it did not include the Colony...
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| x Colony of Vancouver Island |
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See main article Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island (officially known as the Island of Vancouver and its Dependencies), was a crown colony of British North America from 1849 to 1866, after which it was united with British Columbia. The united colony...
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| x Democracy |
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Poland |
Democracy is a form of government in which state-power is held by the majority of citizens within a country or a state. It is derived from the Greek δημοκρατία (dēmokratía (info)), "popular government", which was coined from δῆμος (dêmos), "people"...
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| India | |||
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| x Direct democracy | Switzerland |
Direct democracy, classically termed pure democracy, comprises a form of democracy and theory of civics wherein sovereignty is lodged in the assembly of all citizens who choose to participate. Depending on the particular system, this assembly might...
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| x Constitutional monarchy |
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Denmark |
A constitutional monarchy is a form of constitutional government, where either an elected or hereditary monarch is the head of state, unlike in an absolute monarchy, where in the king or the queen is the sole source of political power, as he or she...
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| Qatar | |||
| England | |||
| Grenada | |||
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| x Mixed member proportional representation |
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New Zealand |
Mixed member proportional representation, also termed mixed-member proportional voting and commonly abbreviated to MMP, is an 'additional member' voting system used to elect representatives to numerous legislatures around the world. MMP is similar...
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| x Despotism |
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Despotism is a form of government by a single authority, either an individual or tightly knit group, which rules with absolute political power.
In its classical form, a despotism is a state where a single individual (the despot) wields all the power...
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| x Presidential system |
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Peru |
A presidential system is a system of government where an executive branch exists and presides (hence the name) separately from the legislature, to which it is not accountable and which cannot, in normal circumstances, dismiss it.
It owes its origins...
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| Angola | |||
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| x Principality |
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Monaco |
A principality (or princedom) is a monarchical feudatory or sovereign state, ruled or reigned over by a monarch with the title of prince or princess, or (in the widest sense) a monarch with another title within the generic use of the term prince....
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| x Coalition | Sudan |
A coalition is an alliance among individuals or groups, during which they cooperate in joint action, each in his own self-interest, joining forces together for a common cause. This alliance may be temporary or a matter of convenience. A coalition...
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| x Socialist Republic | Laos |
Socialist Republic is a nominal republic governed on the principles of socialism usually by a communist or a socialist party. They are usually focused on a centrally planned economy, but sometimes they mix their economy with elements of a free...
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| x Communist state |
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Laos |
In political science, a Communist state is a state with a form of government characterized by single-party rule of a Communist party and a professed allegiance to a communist ideology as the guiding principle of the state. Communist states may have...
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| Vietnam | |||
| China | |||
| x Constitutional democracy | Sierra Leone |
In old times, history of India, Greece, and Rome had governments similar to constitutional democracies. In the Middle Ages, much of Europe was ruled by monarchies. The form of government grew again in the United States following the signing of the...
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| Costa Rica | |||
| Panama | |||
| Suriname | |||
| x Parliamentary Democracy | Pakistan | ||
| x Parliamentary republic |
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Estonia |
A parliamentary republic or parliamentary constitutional republic is a type of republic which operates under a parliamentary system of government (a system with no clear-cut separation between the executive and legislative branches, but with a clear...
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| Austria | |||
| Albania | |||
| Bulgaria | |||
| Bangladesh | |||
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| x League of Nations mandate |
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Territory of New Guinea |
A League of Nations mandate refers to a legal status for certain territories transferred from the control of one country to another following World War I, or the legal instruments that contained the terms for administering the territory on behalf of...
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| x United Nations Trust Territories | Territory of Papua and New Guinea |
Trust Territories were the successors of the remaining League of Nations mandates and came into being when the League of Nations ceased to exist in 1946. All of the trust territories were administered through the UN Trusteeship Council. The one...
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| x Absolute monarchy |
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Saudi Arabia |
Absolute monarchy is a monarchical form of government where the king or queen has absolute power over all aspects of his/her subjects' lives. Although some religious authorities may be able to discourage the monarch from some acts and the sovereign...
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| Qatar | |||
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| x Representative democracy |
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Guam |
Representative democracy is a form of government founded on the principle of elected individuals representing the people, as opposed to either autocracy or direct democracy.
The representatives form more than what it used to be when it was an...
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| Federated States of Micronesia | |||
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| x Athenian democracy |
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Athenian democracy was developed in the Greek city-state of Athens, comprising the central city-state of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica, around 500 BC. Athens was one of the very first known democracies (although anthropological...
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| x Dictatorship |
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A dictatorship is defined as an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual, the dictator, without hereditary ascension. It has three possible meanings:
For some scholars, dictatorship is a form of government that...
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| x Oligarchy |
An Oligarchy (Greek Ὀλιγαρχία, Oligarkhía) is a form of government where power effectively rests with a small elite segment of society distinguished by royal, wealth, family, military or religious hegemony. The word oligarchy is from the Greek words...
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| x Tetrarchy |
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The term Tetrarchy (Greek: "leadership of four [people]") describes any system of government where power is divided among four individuals, but usually refers to the tetrarchy instituted by Roman Emperor Diocletian in 293 CE, marking the end of the...
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| x Caliphate |
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Rashidun Empire |
The caliphate (from the Arabic خليفة or khilāfa) represented the political leadership of the Muslim Ummah. The head of state's position (caliph) is based on the notion of a successor to the Islamic prophet Muhammad's political authority.
Sunni Islam...
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| x Constitutional republic | United States |
A constitutional republic is a state where the head of state and other officials are elected as representatives of the people, and must govern according to existing constitutional law that limits the government's power over citizens. In a...
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| Ghana | |||
| Paraguay | |||
| Philippines | |||
| Sierra Leone | |||
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| x Municipal home rule |
Municipal home rule originated in the United States during the Progressive Era of the early twentieth century. It enables voters to adopt a home rule charter that acts as the city's basic governing document over local issues; however, state law...
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| x Devolution |
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Devolution is the statutory granting of powers from the central government of a state to government at a subnational level, such as a regional, local, or state level. It differs from federalism in that the powers devolved may be temporary and...
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| x Home Rule Municipality |
A Home Rule Municipality in Pennsylvania is one incorporated under its own unique charter, created pursuant to the state's Home Rule and Optional Plans Law and approved by referendum. "Local governments without home rule can only act where...
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