Review: Presidential and Parliamentary Democracies

In what way are the prime minister and the president alike?

• lawmaking body appoints them

• both make laws for their country

• both can dissolve the lawmaking body

• both are chief executives

You are a leader elected by the citizens of your country in the last

national election. Your country's legislature has proposed a new

law. You disagree with the law and plan to veto it. You are separate from the legislature. Which form of government do you have?

• Unitary

• Autocratic

• Presidential

• Parliamentary

Which type of government is described in the passage?

"The ruler of your country has always made all of the political and economic decisions for the country. The citizens do not always agree with his decisions but they have no power to change anything. He alone makes the decisions and has unlimited power."

• Autocracy

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Presidential Democracy

• Parliamentary Democracy

The chief executive of a parliamentary system is usually called a ______.

• President

• Dictator

• President

• Prime Minister

The symbolic leader of parliamentary governments who often has no real power.

• chief executive

• head of state

In which type of democracy do citizens elect members of parliament who then chooses a prime minister as chief executive?

• autocratic

• legislative

• presidential

• parliamentary

The ___________________ of a country is the person responsible for making decisions and running the country.

• head of state

• chief executive

How is a presidential democracy different from a parliamentary democracy?

• The King or Queen selects the Prime Minister and the legislature selects the president.

• In a presidential democracy, citizens directly elect the head of

  government; in a parliamentary democracy, members of Parliament elect the Prime Minister.

• The President is part of the executive branch and the Prime Minister is part of the judicial branch.

• In a parliamentary democracy, citizens directly elect the head of

  government; in a presidential democracy, members of Parliament elect the Prime Minister.

Which type of government is being described by these two statements:

**No separation of power between executive and legislative branch

**Citizens vote for legislature and legislature elects head of government

• autocracy

• communism

• presidential democracy

• parliamentary democracy

Which type of government is being described in the following two statements:

**Executive branch and legislative branch have separate powers

**Citizens vote directly for the head of government

• autocracy

• communism

• presidential democracy

• parliamentary democracy