Forms Of Government Flashcards
What is the system if government in which a single person or group excerises supreme power based on its control of the military and police?
Dictatorship
What is the system of government in which a single ruler exercises supreme power based on heredity or divine right?
Monarchy
What is a system if government headed by religious leaders?
Theocracy
What is a system of government in which only one political party is allowed by the constitution to govern and power is exercised by the leading members of the party?
Single party state
What is a system of government in which public decisions are made directly by citizens meeting together in an assembly or voting in ballot?
Direct democracy
What is a system of government in which voters elect lawmakers to represent them in the nations parliament; the leaders of the executive branch come from the ruling parliament
Parliamentary democracy
What is a system of government in which voters elect lawmakers to represent them in the legislature and a president to lead the government branch as head of the executive branch?
Presidential democracy
What is a system of government in which power is centralized in the national government; regional governments only exercise powers given by the national government ?
Unitary system
What is a system of government in which power is divided between national and regional governments?
Federal system
What is a system of government in which power resides in the regions, which are independent states; the central government gets power from regional governments?
Confederal system
What is an economic system in which decisions about what goods and services to produce and how are made on the basis of tradition?
Traditional economy
What is an economic system that relies mainly on markets to determine what goods and services to produce and how?
Market economy
What is an Economic system that relies mainly on the central government to determine what goods and services to produce and how?
Command economy
