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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.
Head of state. Head of government. Afghanistan. Supreme Leader – Hibatullah Akhundzada. Acting Prime Minister – Hasan Akhund. Albania. President – Bajram Begaj. Prime Minister – Edi Rama. Algeria.
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.
Sources: Country Status and ratings overview 1973–2016, [15] [12] Number and percentages of electoral democracies 1989–2016, [16] Freedom in the World 2018 report covering 2017. [17] Notes: The years shown in the map and table above are the year the survey was released, the data shown covers the prior calendar year.
Dictators or leaders of one-party states, whether popularly elected or not, are also often called presidents. The presidential system is the dominant form of government in the mainland Americas, with 17 of its 22 sovereign states being presidential republics, the exceptions being Canada, Belize, Peru, Guyana and Suriname.
The state of Democracy in Middle East and North Africa can be comparatively assessed [ 1 ] according to various definitions of democracy. [ 2 ] De jure democracies in the Middle East and North Africa are according to system of government: Parliamentary republic: Iraq, [ 3 ] Israel, Lebanon [ 4 ] Presidential republic: Syria, Tunisia, Turkey.
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 ...