government systems
Ways nations organize
Government systems are the structures and institutions through which political authority is organized and exercised.
The term encompasses both forms of government—democracy, monarchy, authoritarianism—and the administrative machinery that implements policy: The course compared government systems across three continents.
Different government systems distribute power differently between central and local authorities, between branches, and between state and citizens.
- socialismCommunal economic control
- centralizationUnifying control in one place
- constitutionalityAccordance with founding charter
- monarchyRule by crowned sovereign
- bureaucracyRigid administrative system
welfare state · civil service · democracy · capitalism · rule of law · devolution · power structure · oligarchy · communism · judicial review · public administration · statutory law · separation of powers · constitutional rights · fascism · republic · judicial independence · common law
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government systemsanarchy
Disorder from absent authority
statelessness · lawlessness · failed state · power vacuum · state of nature
government systemschaos
Complete disorder and confusion
disorder · mayhem · societal collapse · anomie · pandemonium
government systemsradical individualism
Belief in absolute personal sovereignty
self-rule · personal sovereignty · self-governance · personal autonomy · voluntary association
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