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TYPES OF GOVERNMENTS

TYPES OF GOVERNMENTS. How Governments Determine Citizen Participation. High Participation. High Participation. Democracy. Citizen Participation. Government Power. Governmnt Power. Citizen Participation. Government Power. Low or No Participation. Low or No Participation. Authoritarian.

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TYPES OF GOVERNMENTS

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  1. TYPES OF GOVERNMENTS

  2. How Governments Determine Citizen Participation High Participation High Participation Democracy Citizen Participation Government Power GovernmntPower Citizen Participation Government Power Low or No Participation Low or No Participation Authoritarian

  3. Authoritarian - One person possesses unlimited power. - The citizen has limited, if any, role in government.

  4. Authoritarian • The oldest form of government. • One of the most common forms of government. • Maintain power through inheritance or ruthless use of military and police power.

  5. Forms of Authoritarian Govts. • Totalitarian Dictatorship • Ideas of a single leader glorified. • Government tries to control all aspects of social and economic life. • Government is not responsible to the people. • People lack the power to limit their rulers. • Examples- Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin

  6. Forms of Authoritarian Govts. • Absolute Monarchy • King, queen, or emperor exercises the supreme powers of government/unlimited power. • Position is usually inherited. • People lack the power to limit their rulers. • Absolute monarchs are rare today but from the 1400s to the 1700s they ruled most of Western Europe. • Examples- King of Saudi Arabia.

  7. Parliamentary Democracy A system of government having the real executive power vested in a cabinet composed of members of the legislature who are individually and collectively responsible to the legislature. May have a Prime Minister elected by the legislature.

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