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Government in which the people represent themselves and vote directly for new laws and public policy. Switzerland (semi-direct) Electocracy: A form of representative democracy where citizens are able to vote for their government but cannot participate directly in governmental decision making. The government has almost absolute power.
The Federal Government of Mexico (alternately known as the Government of the Republic or Gobierno de la República or Gobierno de México) is the national government of the United Mexican States, the central government established by its constitution to share sovereignty over the republic with the governments of the 31 individual Mexican states, and to represent such governments before ...
Kakistocracy. A kakistocracy ( / kækɪˈstɒkrəsi /, / kækɪsˈtɒ -/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. [1] : 54 [2] [3] The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century. [4] Peter Bowler has noted in his book that there is no word for the government run by the best citizens, [a] and ...
The Doge of Venice (/ d oʊ dʒ / DOHJ) was the highest role of authority within the Republic of Venice (697 CE to 1797 CE). The word Doge derives from the Latin Dux, meaning "leader," originally referring to any military leader, becoming in the Late Roman Empire the title for a leader of an expeditionary force formed by detachments (vexillationes) from the frontier army (), separate from, but ...
Constitutional monarchy with a ceremonial monarch. Parliamentary republic with a ceremonial president. Parliamentary republic with an executive president. Presidential system: Head of government (president) is popularly elected and independent of the legislature. Presidential republic.
v. t. e. A one-party state, single-party state, one-party system or single-party system is a governance structure in which only a single political party controls the ruling system. [1] All other parties are either outlawed or only enjoy limited and controlled participation in elections. Sometimes the term " de facto one-party state" is used to ...
The U.S. federal government, sometimes simply referred to as "Washington", is composed of three distinct branches: legislative, executive, and judicial, whose powers are vested by the U.S. Constitution in the Congress, the president, and the federal courts, respectively. [2]
The twenty-six Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings have been hosted by eighteen countries in twenty-three cities across five continents. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting ( CHOGM; / ˈtʃɒɡəm / or / ˈtʃoʊm /) is a biennial summit meeting of the governmental leaders from all Commonwealth nations.