Types of Government

Government where one person is in charge

• Autocracy

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

Government led by a king or queen

• Monarchy

• Anarchy

• Democracy

The person in charge often seizes power by force

• Oligarchy

• Dictatorship

• Representative Democracy

Citizens often have no rights in this form of government.

• Representative Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Direct Democracy

Nobody is in charge

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Anarchy

Type of democracy where citizens elect others to serve in the government

• Direct

• Represenatative

• Monarchy

Type of government where rulers often inherit their power from a parent

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Anarchy

Government where a small group rules the country

• Oligarchy

• Autocracy

• Democracy

People do not answer to any leader or government.

• Oligarchy

• Autocracy

• Anarchy

Religious law and religious leaders are the government's authority

• Aristocracy

• Theocracy

• Autocracy