TYPES OF GOVERNMENTSWhat are the types of governments we find in our world and what are their advantages and disadvantages?

DICTATORSHIP—one person (the ruler) has all the power.

Advantages: organized and controlled. Efficient and there are no public protests or riots.

Disadvantages: limited individual rights, uncertain transition of power, usually dependent on the military, no debate, no free press, no opposition parties.

Ex: Pakistan, Sudan, Cuba, North Korea

You have a cell phone, a house, and a car.

Using your stuff to explain dictatorship

Using your stuff to explain dictatorship

You have a cell phone, a house and a car.

The government takes your house and car and gives you nothing for them

If you complain about it, they put you in jail or shoot you.

Military Dictatorship – when a country is led by a top official in the army (like a general)

Military dictatorships tend not to allow of individual rights and freedoms. Burma is a military dictatorship.

You have a cell phone, a house, and a car.

Using your stuff to explain military

dictatorship

You have a cell phone, a house, and a car.

The military leaders takes your phone, house, and car because he wants it.

If you complain, the government puts you in jail, shoots you, or forces you to join the army.

Using your stuff to explain military

dictatorship

MONARCHY—a royal family at the head of state(king, queen, emperor)

Advantages: stable, controlled, traditional, unifying.

Disadvantages: No criteria (other than birth) for ruling, expensive, monarch is remote from everyday people, limited individual rights, no voting.

Examples: Jordan, Monaco

You have a cell phone, a house, and a car.

Using your stuff to explain monarchy

You have a cell phone, a house, and a car. The monarch allows you the privilege of using

your car but takes it to use whenever he chooses and without your permission.

If you complain, the monarch will take both your car and your house.

Using your stuff to explain monarchy

THEOCRACY---rule by the clergy (clergy – leaders of a particular church) A theocracy is a country in which the

religious leaders are also leaders in the government. The society is run by religious beliefs and divine guidance.

Iran is the only theocracy we have today, but there are many groups that are fighting for their nation to become a theocracy such as in Palestine, Afghanistan, Egypt and Pakistan.

You have a cell phone, a house, and a car.

Using your stuff to explain theocracy

You have a cell phone, a house, and a car.

The government tells you that if you want to keep your cell phone, house, and car that you have to follow the religion of the leaders.

If you do not, they take every-

thing and throw you in jail.

Using your stuff to explain theocracy

DEMOCRACY—rule by the people.

Advantages: protects individual rights, input is taken from many different sources to make a governmental decision, people are the government.

Disadvantages: takes more time to make decisions, more costly.

Examples: Canada, USA, Japan, Korea. According to the State of the World Atlas,

approximately 60% of the world’s population live in a stable democracy.

You have a cell phone, a house, and a car.

Using phones, houses, and cars to explain

democracy

You have a cell phone, a house, and a car.

You vote on who you want to represent you when new laws about cell phones and property are written.

Using your stuff to explain democracy

TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT – government in transition

This is a country that is not yet established, there are instances of corruption, voting fraud and government mismanagement….they are in ‘transition’

Using your stuff to explain transitional

government You have a cell phone, a house, and a

car.

transitional government

You have a cell phone, a house, and a car.

The government (or some other group) uses them without asking and if there are problems with the anything, it does not help you to take fix it.

SOCIALISM – government owns and runs business/industry

Government plays a heavy role in running the nation. High taxes, high level of services.

Such as: Holland, Denmark, Finland.

You have a cell phone, a house, and a car.

Using your stuff to explain socialism

Socialism

The government runs the cell phone and car companies and you can freely choose your house and job.

You also get free health insurance.

COMMUNISM – a classless society in which all property is owned by the community

as a whole and where everyone has equal social

and economic status.

As a political movement, communism sought to overthrow capitalism through a workers revolution and redistribute the wealth in the hands of the proletariat, or working class.

Communism Everybody has a cell phone, a house,

and a car.

Everybody has a cell phone, a house, and a car.

The government takes all cars and puts them in a lot with everyone else’s cars.

Some people take care of maintenance on all the cars

Some people takes care of maintenance on everyone’s cell phones.

Everyone shares the phones and cars when they need them.

Using your stuff to explain Communism

ANARCHY – collapsed state… there is no government in place

Unfortunately, we also have nations in the world in which the people are living in a state of anarchy. The government is either non-existence or it is not effective. Somalia, the Congo, and Syria are all in a state of anarchy. In many instances, warlords are ruling portions of the nation.

You have a cell phone, a house, and a car.

Using your stuff to explain anarchy

You have a cell phone, a house, and a car.

Either you let people use your car and cell phone or your neighbors possibly kill you and move in to your house.

There are no laws or police to

protect you.

Anarchy

POLITICS MATTERS POLITICS: the activities associated with the

governing of a country or other area General issues that fall under the category of

politics: War or peace Criminal justice (Laws and legal systems)

Privacy laws related to the internet

Civil rights and liberties Trade Family planning Marriage

EXAMPLES OF LAWS THAT IMPACT KIDS:  can only work a certain number of hours

when you are under 18 can’t work until 14 years of age need a work permit to work if you are 14-

17 must go to school can’t drive until you are 16 can’t vote until you are 18 can’t join the army until you are 18

3-5 sentence response….

How do decisions made by politicians impact your life?

Fyi…. Impact – to affect or influence

OPEN IT/WHY DO YOU AGREE….

I BELIEVE _________________________

_______________________ BASED UPON ___________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

GIVE FACTS/EXAMPLES:

BASED ON OUR NOTES, POLITICIANS MAKE DECISIONS REGARDING WAR AND PEACE, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, LAW MAKING, CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES, MARRIAGE, AND FAMILY PLANNING.

CLOSE IT…

THEREFORE, MY LIFE IS INFLUENCED BY POLITICAL DECISIONS.

I FEEL THAT I AM AFFECTED BY POLITICS BECAUSE POLITICIANS MAKE DECISIONS REGARDING WAR AND PEACE, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, LAW MAKING, CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES, MARRIAGE, AND FAMILY PLANNING. THEREFORE, MY LIFE IS INFLUENCED BY POLITICAL DECISIONS.