Government systems of the Middle East

Why do the individual voters have more power in a democracy than they do in an autocracy or an oligarchy?

• Kings are always cruel rulers.
• The people play a role in deciding who rules.
• All of the power stays in the hands of the local governments.
• The voters in democratic countries always choose qualified leaders

Government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections. 

• Democracy
• Autocracy
• Oligarchy
• Dictatorship

A system of government in which the leader is elected by the citizens and is constitutionally independent of the legislature. 

• Autocracy
• Oligarchy
• Parliamentary democracy
• Presidential democracy

What is the main DIFFERENCE between a presidential democracy and a parliamentary democracy?

• A President controls a country and a Prime Minister controls a state.

• A Prime Minister does not belong to a political party while a President always does.

• A Prime Minister has more power than a President.

• A President is elected directly by the citizens, while a Prime Minister is elected by the Legislature.

What kind of government has the MOST citizen participation? 

• Democratic
• Autocratic
• Oligarchic
• Dictatorship

In a parliamentary system, who is the head of government?

• Prime Minister

• President

• Monarch

• Dictator

Government in which one person possesses unlimited power and the citizen has little, if any, role in the government. 

• Oligarchy
• Autocracy
• Democracy
• Republic

Which type of leader is a member of the country's legislature?

• king
• president
• prime minister
• dictator

This form of government allows citizens to vote and hold office: 

• Democracy
• Oligarchy
• Autocracy
• Oligarchy

Which BEST describes the two predominant forms of a democratic government?

• dictatorship and republican
• presidential and dictatorship
• presidential and confederate
• parliamentary and presidential