Forms of Government Flashcards
Civics
the study or science of the privileges and obligations of citizens.
Community
a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.
Government
the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration:
Direct Democracy
to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.:
Representative
a person or thing that represents another or others.
Representative Democracy
a person or thing that represents another or others.
Monarchy
a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch.: Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
Oligarchy
a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
Majority
the greater part or number; the number larger than half the total (opposed to minority):
Minority
the smaller part or number; a number, part, or amount forming less than half of the whole.
Autocracy
government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch.
Communism
a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.
Socialism
a theory or system of social organization that advocates the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, capital, land, etc., by the community as a whole, usually through a centralized government.
Totalitarianism
the practices and principles of a totalitarian regime.
Head of Government
the highest or the second-highest official in the executive branch of a sovereign state
