Types of Government

Dictatorship

a form of political rule by one person who governs unrestricted by legal, constitutional, or conventional laws or restraints. Comes to rule by power.

Example: Cuba (Fidel Castro and his brother)

Theocracy

is a form of government in which the governmental rulers are identical with the leaders of the dominant religion, and governmental policies are either identical with or strongly influenced by the principals of the majority religion.

Example: Iran (Shah)

Absolute Monarchy

rule by one person—a monarch, usually a king or a queen—whose actions are restricted neither by written law nor by custom. Comes to rule by heredity.

Example: Former Austria

Constitutional Monarchy

a constitutional monarchy is a system of government established under a constitutional system which acknowledges a hereditary or elected monarch as a Head of the State.

Example: Great Britain

Presidential Democracy

government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives, with an elected president at the Head of the State.

Example: U.S.A

Parliamentary Democracy

government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives, with a parliament. A parliament is a national representative body having supreme legislative powers within the state.

Example: Great Britain