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 form or system of rule by which a state, community, etc., is governed:
Direct Democracy
The people who decide on policies without any intermediary or representative
Representative
A person or thing that represents another or others.
Representative Democracy
Representative democracy is a form of democracy in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policy initiatives;
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
Procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
Totalitarianism
Absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution.
Head of Government
The head of government is the highest or the second-highest official in the executive branch of a sovereign state.
