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Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).
This list of generic names of political parties includes only generic party names, not overviews of parties, e.g., liberal and green parties. Action Party.
Other names Ideology Mergers/Splits Created Disbanded Federalist Party: 1789–1825 Classical conservatism [67] 1789 1824 Anti-Administration party: 1789–1792 Anti-Federalism [68] Merged into: Democratic-Republican Party in 1792 1789 1792 Democratic-Republican Party: 1792–1825 Republican Party, Democratic Party Jeffersonianism [69]
Overall name of legislature Name of house(s) House level Term (years) Electoral system Seats Population per seat Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: Leadership Council of Afghanistan (رهبری شُورَىٰ, Rahbarī Shūrā) [3] Unicameral: No fixed term Appointment by the supreme leader: Aprx. 30 [4] 1,340,608 [a] Albania
The United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. presidents, first ladies, and other prominent persons and locations. [1] The use of such names was originally for security purposes and dates to a time when sensitive electronic communications were not routinely encrypted ; today, the names simply serve for purposes of brevity, clarity ...
This is a list of the offices of heads of state, heads of government, cabinet, and legislature, of sovereign states. Date of Origin refers to most recent fundamental change in form of government, for example independence, change from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy, revolution, new constitution.
US Government Manual, official freely downloadable PDFs of annual printed versions. Federal Agency Directory, online database maintained by the Louisiana State University Libraries in partnership with the Federal Depository Library Program of the GPO; A–Z Index of US Departments and Agencies, USA.gov, the US government's official web portal ...
List of initialisms, acronyms ("words made from parts of other words, pronounceable"), and other abbreviations used by the government and the military of the United States. Note that this list is intended to be specific to the United States government and military—other nations will have their own acronyms.