Week 4 Vocab: Forms & Systems of Government

a form of government in which political power is held by the people; may be direct or indirect

• democracy

• direct democracy

• representative democracy

• monarchy

a form of government in which the people elect representatives to make policies and laws for them; sometimes called a representative democracy or indirect democracy

• democracy

• monarchy

• constitutional monarchy

• Republic

a form of government headed by a king or queen who inherits the position, rules for life, and holds power that can range anywhere between limited to absolute

• monarchy

• Republic

• Autocracy

• oligarchy

·       a form of government in which unlimited power is concentrated in one individual

• autocracy

• oligarcy

• democracy

• monarchy

a form of government in which a small group or class of people have total control and power with little to no accountability

• autocracy

• monarchy

• democracy

• oligarchy

a system of government where almost all power is located with the central government

• parliamentary

• unitary

• confederation

• federation

a system of government in which power is shared between a national government and state/local governments

• unitary

• parliamentary

• federal

• confederal

a system of government where power is located with independent states and there is little power in the central government

• confederal

• federation

• monarchy

• parliamentary

a form of government in which religious authorities rule in the name of a god or deity

• monarchy
• oligarchy
• theocracy
• democracy

a form of government in which power is centralized with one individual or group and requires complete subservience to the state

• totalitarianism

• democracy
• oligarchy
• monarchy