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2. Comparing Gov.
Comparing Forms of Government
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Democracy | system of government in which citizens exercise supreme power, acting either directly on their own or through elected representatives |
| Monarchy | system of government in which a single ruler exercises supreme power based on heredity or divine right |
| Dictatorship | a system of government in which a single person or group exercises supreme power by controlling the military and police |
| Market Economy | an economic system that relies mainly on markets to determine what goods and services to produce and how to produce them |
| Traditional Economy | an economic system in which decisions about what to produce and how are made on the basis of customs, beliefs, and traditions |
| Republic | a nation in which supreme power rests with the citizens and is exercised by their elected representatives |
| Feudalism | an economic and political system of the European Middle Ages in which landowners granted land to tenants in return for military assistance and other services |
| Constitutional Monarchy | a system of government in which the powers of a monarch are limited by a constitution, either written or unwritten |
| Constitutional Democracy | a democratic government based on a written constitution |
| Totalitarian | an extreme form of authoritarian rule in which the state seeks to control every aspect of its citizens’ lives |
| Communism | a system of government in which a single political party controls both the government and the economy; also, the theories developed by Karl Marx regarding the development of an ideal, classless society |
| Fascism | totalitarian system featuring extreme nationalism and glorification of the military |
| Nazism | a form of totalitarianism and type of fascism, based in part on the myth of racial superiority; developed in Germany before World War II |
| Authoritarian Regime | a system of government in which the state exercises broad control over the lives of its citizens |
| Parliamentary Democracy | a political system in which voters elect lawmakers to represent them in the nation’s parliament; the elected lawmakers choose a prime minister to head the executive branch |
| Presidential Democracy | a political system in which voters choose a president to lead the government as head of the executive branch |
| Prime Minister | the chief executive in a parliamentary democracy |
| Command Economy | an economic system that relies mainly on the central government to determine what goods and services to produce and how to produce them |
| Capitalism | an economic system in which individual investors, or capitalists, privately own the means of production; also known as a free enterprise system] |
| Federal System | a type of government in which power is shared between the national government and smaller regional governments within the nation |
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