Lecture 0-1

Classifying Governments

• Who can Participate

• Executive/Legislative Relationship

• Geographic Distribution of Power

Who Can Participate

• Autocracy “One”

• Oligarchy “Few”

• Democracy “People or Many”

Autocracy

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

Oligarchy

• Aristocracy

• Plutocracy

• Technocracy

• Theocracy

• Junta

Democracy

• Pure or Direct

• Representative or Indirect

Democracy vs Republic

• Democracy is a nation where the people exercise power either directly or indirectly

• A Republic is where the people exercise power indirectly and there no can be inherited positions

Thus

• All republics are democracies but not all democracies are republics

• The USA is a Republic and a Democracy

• The UK and Canada are democracies but NOT republics

Executive Legislative Relationship

• Presidential

• Parliamentary

Presidential

• The people pick the executive either directly or indirectly

• The legislature CANNOT pick the executive

Parliamentary

• The legislature picks the executive

Geographic Distribution of Power

• Unitary

• Confederate

• Federal