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In politics, a regime (also spelled régime) is a system of government that determines access to public office, and the extent of power held by officials. The two broad categories of regimes are democratic and autocratic .
Before the 17th Century, the term 'republic' could be used to refer to states of any form of government as long as it was not a tyrannical regime. French philosopher Jean Bodin 's definition of the republic was "the rightly ordered government of a number of families, and of those things which are their common concern, by a sovereign power."
Anocracy, or semi-democracy, [1] is a form of government that is loosely defined as part democracy and part dictatorship, [2] [3] or as a "regime that mixes democratic with autocratic features". [3]
The regime's collapse marks an end to a 24-year reign, Assad having succeeded his father Hafez al-Assad in 2000. The Assad family had ruled Syria since 1971. Assad oversaw Syria's slide into ...
The Regime combines all the political skewering of shows like Veep and The Thick of It with the kind of intense human drama and complex relationships viewers have come to expect from the prime, ...
The effects of a kleptocratic regime or government on a nation are typically adverse in regards to the welfare of the state's economy, political affairs, and civil rights. Kleptocratic governance typically ruins prospects of foreign investment and drastically weakens the domestic market and cross-border trade.
“The Regime,” starring Kate Winslet, is HBO’s latest prestige series and it never goes deeper than its elevator pitch: “Veep” meets “Succession,” but set inside an authoritarian ...
2.regime Used interchangeably with “government” to denote an organized system of rule (e.g., aristocracy, monarchy, democracy). The term is also sometimes used in ...