Party Systems

Government in which the citizens run the country and have an equal say.

• direct democracy

• representative democracy

• oligarchy

• monarchy

Government in which the people vote to elect the leaders who listen to the people's concerns and make laws to help.

• anarchy

• communism

• dictatorship

• republic

A single party runs a government where individual people do not own land, factories, or machinery. Instead, the government or the whole community owns these things. Everyone is supposed to share the wealth that they create.

• theocracy

• monarchy

• communism

• democracy

A government in which absolute power is held by a single person or small group of people. The person or people in power are not held to account by any form of constitution or other constraints on what they can and can't do.

• monarchy

• dictatorship

• communism

• socialism

Which country has communism as its government?

• Poland

• China

• Canada

• Costa Rica

Which country has a republic?

• Iraq

• Somalia

• Egypt

• United States

A political party is an organized group of people

who share similar political views and work to influence the government

in support of those views.

• True

• False

There are countries with NO political parties.

• True

• False

ALL countries have political parties.

• True

• False

A few countries that are not ______ have a single-party

system with one major political party.

• monarchies

• democracies

• communist

• None of the above