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This is a list of current heads of state and heads of government. In some cases, mainly in presidential systems , one leader is head of state and head of government . In other cases, mainly in semi-presidential and parliamentary systems , the head of state and the head of government are different people.
List of countries by system of government. For further information, see List of forms of government. World's states coloured by systems of government: Parliamentary systems: Head of government is elected or nominated by and accountable to the legislature. Constitutional monarchy. Parliamentary republic.
Many countries have a state religion without the government directly deriving its powers from a divine authority or a religious authority which is directly exercising governmental powers. Since few theocracies exist in the modern world, the word "theocracy" is now used as a descriptive term for a government which enforces a state religion.
List of totalitarian puppet regimes. The following is a list of puppet states of various outside states (mostly Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union), which are considered to be totalitarian. Country. Totalitarianism. Leader (s) Ruling party/group. Ideology.
For other uses, see Rahbar (disambiguation). The supreme leader of Iran, [ note 1 ] also referred to as Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, [ 2 ][ note 2 ] but officially called the Supreme Leadership Authority, [ note 3 ] is the head of state and the highest political and religious authority of the Islamic Republic of Iran (above the ...
The longest-serving current leader, Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei, has ruled since 1967. This is a list of current state leaders ordered by their continuous tenure in a position of national leadership. For countries in which the head of state and head of government are separate, both offices are listed.
Politics of Iran. The politics of Iran takes place in the framework of an Islamic theocracy which was formed following the overthrow of Iran's millennia-long monarchy by the 1979 Revolution. Iran's system of government (nezam) was described by Juan José Linz in 2000 as combining "the ideological bent of totalitarianism with the limited ...
Totalitarian democracy. A form of electocracy in which lawfully elected representatives maintain the integrity of a nation state whose citizens, while granted the right to vote, have little or no participation in the decision-making process of the government. Democratic Kampuchea(1975–1979) Electoral autocracy.