Forms of Government

Can exist with other forms of government

• Dictatorship
• Theocracy
• Anarachy

Led by a king or queen

• Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Democracy

Nobody is in charge

• Monarchy
• Anarchy
• Junta

Those in charge are military members who took over by force. 

• Junta
• Monarchy
• Democracy

A small group rules the country

• democracy
• anarchy 
• oligarchy

People do not answer to any leader or government.

• Oligarachy 
• Democracy
• Anarachy 

God and religious law are the government's authority. 

• Theocracy
• Anarchy
• Democracy 

Democracy where citizens participate in lawmaking themselves. 

• Representative
• Elected
• Direct

Ruler controls everything; citizens have no rights.

• Direct Democracy
• Dictatorship
• Representative Democracy (Republic)
• Theocratic Republic

Democracy where citizens elect others to serve in government.

• Direct Democracy
• Representative Democracy
• Autocratic Democracy
• Theocratic Democracy