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  2. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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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).

  3. Dictatorship - Wikipedia

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    The power structures of dictatorships vary, and different definitions of dictatorship consider different elements of this structure. Political scientists such as Juan José Linz and Samuel P. Huntington identify key attributes that define the power structure of a dictatorship, including a single leader or a small group of leaders, the exercise of power with few limitations, limited political ...

  4. Democracy-Dictatorship Index - Wikipedia

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    The Democracy-Dictatorship Index has the main regime types of "democracy" and "dictatorship" and three sub-types for each as well. Democracies can be either parliamentary, semi-presidential, or presidential and dictatorships can be civilian, military, or royal. Many countries which are seen as otherwise democratic are dictatorships because ...

  5. List of totalitarian regimes - Wikipedia

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    Unitary presidential constitutional republic under conjugal military dictatorship: Asia: Republic of Rwanda [82] 1973: 1994: Juvénal Habyarimana: National Revolutionary Movement for Development: Hutu supremacy Anti-Communism Ultranationalism Social Conservatism Right-wing populism Tropical Fascism Unitary one-party presidential republic under ...

  6. List of countries by system of government - Wikipedia

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  7. Right-wing dictatorship - Wikipedia

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    Examples of right-wing dictatorships may include anti-communist ones, such as Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Estado Novo, Francoist Spain, the Chilean Junta, the Greek Junta, the Brazilian military dictatorship, the Argentine Junta (or National Reorganization Process), Republic of China under Chiang Kai-shek, South Korea when it was led by ...

  8. The Economist Democracy Index - Wikipedia

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    These countries can have significant faults in other democratic aspects, including underdeveloped political culture, low levels of participation in politics, and issues in the functioning of governance. [6] Hybrid regimes are countries with regular electoral frauds, preventing them from being fair and free democracies. These countries commonly ...

  9. Regime - Wikipedia

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    In a democracy, citizens have the right to participate in free and fair elections, where they can vote for representatives and leaders in a competitive process. [19] These regimes typically maintain a political system that ensures multiple political parties can compete for power, reflecting the political pluralism within the society ...