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  2. Oligarchy - Wikipedia

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    Basic forms of government. Oligarchy (from Ancient Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía) 'rule by few'; from ὀλίγος (olígos) 'few' and ἄρχω (árkhō) 'to rule, command') [1][2][3] is a conceptual form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. These people may or may not be distinguished by one or ...

  3. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    This article lists forms of government and political systems, which are not mutually exclusive, and often have much overlap. [1]According to Yale professor Juan José Linz there are three main types of political systems today: democracies, totalitarian regimes and, sitting between these two, authoritarian regimes with hybrid regimes.

  4. Russian oligarchs - Wikipedia

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    Since 2014, hundreds of Russian oligarchs and their companies have been hit with US sanctions for their support of "the Russian government's malign activity around the globe". [5] [6] In 2022, many Russian oligarchs and their close family members were targeted and sanctioned by countries around the world as a rebuke of Russia's war in Ukraine.

  5. List of countries by system of government - Wikipedia

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    President-parliamentary systems. [edit] In a president-parliamentary system, the prime minister and cabinet are dually accountable to the president and the legislature. [ 27 ] Austria [ p ] Azerbaijan [ 35 ] Belarus [ 36 ] Chad [ 37 ] Congo, Republic of the.

  6. Ukrainian oligarchs - Wikipedia

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    Ukrainian oligarchs (Ukrainian: українські олігархи, romanized: ukrainski oliharkhy) are business oligarchs who emerged on the economic and political scene of Ukraine after the 1991 Ukrainian independence referendum. This period saw Ukraine transitioning to a market economy, with the rapid privatization of state-owned assets.

  7. Military junta - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A military junta (/ ˈhʊntə, ˈdʒʌntə / ⓘ) is a system of government led by a committee of military leaders. The term junta means "meeting" or "committee" and originated in the national and local junta organized by the Spanish resistance to Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808. [1] The term is now used to refer to an authoritarian ...

  8. World government - Wikipedia

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    World government is the concept of a single political authority with jurisdiction over all of Earth and humanity. It is conceived in a variety of forms, from tyrannical to democratic , which reflects its wide array of proponents and detractors.

  9. Republic (Plato) - Wikipedia

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    Plato categorized governments into five types of regimes: aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny. The starting point is an imagined, alternate aristocracy (ruled by a philosopher-king); a just government ruled by a philosopher king , dominated by the wisdom-loving element.