List of forms of government

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This article lists forms of government and political systems, according to a series of different ways of categorising them. The systems listed are of course not mutually exclusive, and often have overlapping definitions (for example autocracy, authoritarianism, despotism, totalitarianism, monarchism and tyranny).

1 Alphabetical list with hierarchy
2 By approach to regional autonomy
3 By political franchise
4 According to Weber's tripartite classification of authority
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Alphabetical list with hierarchy

The following list groups major political systems (recognized by political science) in alphabetical order. The various subtype political systems are listed below the main system of government.

Anarchism (perhaps better defined as a system of non-hierarchical governance)

Authoritarianism (Autocracy or Oligarchy)
- Absolutism
  - Enlightened absolutism
- Aristocracy
- Corporatism
- Despotism
- Diarchy
- Dictatorship (not all dictatorships are autocracies)
  - Military dictatorship
  - Benevolent dictatorship
- Gerontocracy
- Hagiocracy
- Kleptocracy
- Matriarchy
- Meritocracy
- Monarchism government called monarchy, which consisted of a monarch who had all the power over the area.
  - Absolute monarchy
  - Constitutional monarchy
  - Feudalism
  - Despotate
  - Duchy
    - Grand Duchy
  - Elective monarchy
  - Emirate
  - Hereditary monarchy
  - Popular monarchy
  - Principality
  - New Monarchs
  - Self-proclaimed monarchy
  - Viceroyalty
- Patriarchy
  - Patrimonalism
- Plutocracy
  - Timocracy
- Police state
  - Corporate police state
- Robocracy
- Theocracy (hierocracy)
  - Caliphate
  - Halachic state
  - Holy See
  - Islamic republic
  - Sultanate
- Totalitarianism
  - Fascism (extreme nationalism)
  - Single-party state
- Tyranny
- Technocracy (bureaucratic)

Democracy

[edit] By approach to regional autonomy

This list focuses on differing approaches that political systems take to the distribution of sovereignty, and the autonomy of regions within the state.

Sovereignty located exclusively at the centre
- Empire
- Unitary state
Sovereignty located at the centre and in peripheral areas
- Federation and Federal republic

[edit] By political franchise

This list shows a division based on differences in political franchise (suffrage).

anarchy - rule by no one
democracy - rule by majority
republic - rule by law
oligarchy - rule by minority
autocracy - rule by one

[edit] According to Weber's tripartite classification of authority

Max Weber in his tripartite classification of authority distinguished three ideal types of political leadership, domination and authority:

charismatic domination (familial and religious)
traditional domination (patriarchs, patrimonalism, feudalism)
legal domination (modern law and state, bureaucracy)

[edit] See also

Form of government

[edit] External links

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