GOVERNMENT PROS & CONS

ARISTOCRACY

❖ GREEK FOR EXCELLENCE AND POWER!

❖ BASED ON INHERITED RIGHT!

❖ RULED BY A SELECT FEW FROM THE RULING CLASS OR HIGHEST SOCIAL CLASS!

❖ SECOND ONLY TO MONARCHS

COMMUNISM

❖ A CLASSLESS SOCIETY!

❖ EXTREME FORM OF SOCIALISM!

❖ MOST IMPORTANTLY A POLITICAL SYSTEM, AS OPPOSED TO AN ECONOMIC SYSTEM!

❖ DOES NOT WORK IN TANDEM WITH OTHER POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES

DEMOCRACY / REPUBLIC❖ GOVERNMENT BY THE

PEOPLE VIA ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES!

❖ FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS!

❖ PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF ALL CITIZENS, EQUALLY AND FAIRLY!

❖ *MAJORITY UNLIMITED (DEMOCRACY)/MAJORITY LIMITED (REPUBLIC)

EPISTEMOCRACY

❖ A UTOPIAN STYLE GOVERNMENT IN WHICH PEOPLE OF RANK ARE THOSE WHO ARE HUMBLE ABOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD

FASCISM

❖ GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM LED BY A DICTATOR HAVING COMPLETE POWER.!

❖ FORCIBLY SUPPRESSING CRITICISM AND OPPOSITION!

❖ EMPHASIZING AGGRESSIVE NATIONALISM

MERITOCRACY

❖ APPOINTMENTS ARE MADE AND RESPONSIBILITIES ARE GIVEN BASED ON TALENT AND ABILITY!

❖ A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEOPLE ARE AWARDED AND ADVANCED!

❖ NOT DIRECTLY BASED ON PRIVILEGE AND WEALTH

MONARCHY

❖ Undivided rule or absolute sovereignty by a single person!

❖ A hereditary chief of state with life tenure!

❖ Powers vary greatly from nominal (name only) to absolute

THEOCRACY

❖ WHEN GOD OR A DEITY IS RECOGNIZED AS THE STATE'S CIVIL LEADER!

❖ DEVINE GUIDANCE

TECHNOCRACY

❖ A SYSTEM IN WHICH MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP IS GIVEN TO THOSE WITH SIGNIFICANT KNOWLEDGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY!

❖ ORIGINALLY USED VIA SCIENTIFIC METHOD FOR SOLVING SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Gerontocracy

❖ Form of oligarchical (a small group of people with control) rule, led by those who are significantly older than most of the adult population

TIMOCRACY

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❖ A SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE RULED BY HONOURABLE CITIZENS!

❖ SIMILAR TO MERITOCRACY!

❖ OUTSTANDING MORAL CHARACTER!

❖ TRUSTED BY THE PEOPLE

GENIOCRACY

❖ RULED BY THE PROBLEM-SOLVNG AND CREATIVE THINKING. !

❖ GOVERNANCE REQUIRES THAT YOU ARE CREATIVE, INNOVATIVE, INTELLIGENT, AND WISE!

❖ GREATEST CHALLENGE IS TO JUSTIFY THE METHOD OF SELECTION