Types of Government

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Types of Government

• Getting to Know Your World

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Authoritarianism

• Police State
• Single-Party State
• Communist States
• Fascism
• Totalitarianism

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Autocracy

• Absolutism
• Despotism
• Dictatorship
• Monarchy
• Absolute, Constitutional, Elective, Emirate,
  Hereditary, Principality, Self-Proclaimed

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Democracy

• Direct
• Representative
• Westminster system
• Parliamentary system (consensus)
• Presidential system

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Republic

• Federal Republic
• Commonwealth
• Socialist Republic

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Theocracy

• Caliphate
• Holy See
• Islamic Republic
• Sultanate

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Your Assignment

• Head to the CIA World Factbook and find four
  countries who are currently or have been ruled
  under the type of government you drew. Write them
  down and their circumstances.
• Then, divide a sheet of paper, and come up with
  at least three benefits and three drawbacks of
  your system.
• Finally, create a new country, name it, create a
  flag for it that symbolizes the type of
  government, and create a motto that goes with it.