Middle East Government and Economics

The leader of Saudi Arabia holds the title of

• king

• president

• prime minister

• supreme leader

The citizens of Israel have more influence over the election of their leader than the citizens of Saudi Arabia do. Why is this?

• Israel actually does not have a leader so in reality, the citizens cannot influence the government at all.

• The citizens of Israel elect the legislature, who then elects the prime minister, while in Saudi Arabia the monarch is decided through the royal bloodline.

• Israel is a monarchy, and the only election in which citizens are allowed to participate is for the prime minister, while in Saudi Arabia, all major officials are elected.

• In Saudi Arabia the leader is chosen through parliamentary democracy, and in Israel the prime minister is chosen by popular vote by selected citizens.

Recently the country of Turkey has changed their form of government from a ___________ to a _________________. Which has increased citizen participation.

• Parliamentary Democracy; Presidential Democracy

• Autocracy; Democracy

• Theocracy; Oligarchy

• Presidential Democracy; Parliamentary Democracy.

which country do citizens have the most political freedom?

• Israel

• Iran

• Egypt

• Saudi Arabia

Ahmed is running in an election for a seat in his country’s legislature. If he succeeds,

he and his fellow legislators will then vote to choose his country’s head of state. What

system of government does this country most likely use?

• Theocracy

• Monarchy

• Presidential Democracy

• Parliamentary Democracy

Turkey and Saudi Arabia have which of the following things in common?

• democratic forms of government

• citizens participate in free and fair elections

• a parliament that makes laws and policies for the nation

• citizens’ freedoms are limited in both

In a Parliamentary Democracy, unlike a presidential system, the head of government is connected to which branch?

• Judicial

• National

• Regional

• Legislative

Which of the following do presidential democracies and parliamentary democracies have in common?

• both have oligarchic participation

• both have a prime minister chosen by all the citizens

• both have democratic elections by citizens who can all vote

• both have only autocratic citizen participation at the national level

A type of democratic government where the leader is chosen in a separate election from the legislature is

• Absolute Monarchy

• Presidential

• Republic

• Parliamentary

A prime minister is usually the leader of the government in this system.

• presidential

• parliamentary

• theocratic

• national