This article lists forms of government and political systems, which are not mutually exclusive, and often have much overlap. According to Yale professor...

tyranny. These forms are not always mutually exclusive, and mixed governments are common. The main aspect of any philosophy of government is how political...

types of regimes. Aristotle's Politics discusses various forms of government. One form Aristotle named politeia, which consisted of a mixture of the other...

This is a list of sovereign states by constitutionally defined system of government. This list does not measure degree of democracy, political corruption...

A large majority of the UN member countries, 166 out of 193, have a unitary system of government. A unitary system of government can be considered to...

A government-in-exile (abbreviated as GiE) is a political group that claims to be the legitimate government of a sovereign state or semi-sovereign state...

national unity government, government of national unity (GNU), or national union government is a broad coalition government consisting of all parties (or...

governments into five basic types (four being existing forms and one being Plato's ideal form, which exists "only in speech"): democracy: government by...

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government" or hybrid government in his work Politics, where he drew upon many of the constitutional forms in the city-states of Ancient Greece. In the...

states have various forms of government. The Constitutive Act of the African Union makes no provision for what type of government a member state may or...

This is a list of female Muslim heads of state and heads of government. Some countries do not have a Muslim-majority. The list is chronological.   In office...

The Government of India has social welfare and social security schemes for India's citizens funded either by the central government, state government or...

World government is the concept of a single political authority with jurisdiction over all of Earth and humanity. It is conceived in a variety of forms, from...

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Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of governance or public administration within a particular sovereign state. Local governments typically...

A puppet state, puppet régime, puppet government or dummy government is a state that is de jure independent but de facto completely dependent upon an outside...

terms.) For most of prehistory people lived in stateless societies. The earliest forms of states arose about 5,500 years ago as governments gained state capacity...

ochlocracy as one of the three "bad" forms of government (tyranny, oligarchy, and ochlocracy) as opposed to the three "good" forms of government: monarchy, aristocracy...

This is a non-exhaustive world-wide list of government-owned companies. The paragraph that follows was paraphrased from a 1996 GAO report which investigated...

the following lines: The head of government — usually the leader of the majority party or coalition — forms the government, which is answerable to parliament;...

Sovetskaya respublika), or council republic is a republic in which the government is formed of soviets (workers' councils) and politics are based on soviet democracy...

leadership, is a temporary government formed to manage a period of transition, often following state collapse. Provisional governments are generally appointed...

The Government Ministries of Thailand (Thai: กระทรวง: Krasuang) are the government agencies that compose the executive branch of the Government of Thailand...

science, despotism (Greek: Δεσποτισμός, romanized: despotismós) is a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power. Normally, that...

Direct democracy Ideology List of communist ideologies List of forms of government List of ideologies named after people List of political systems in France...

E-government (short for electronic government) is the use of technological communications devices, such as computers and the Internet, to provide public...

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nominally civilian government. These two forms of junta rule are sometimes called open rule and disguised rule. Disguised rule may take the form of either civilianization...

a form of government where the values of a particular religion have an effect on laws and policies, often when most of the population is a member of the...