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Iran combines the forms of a presidential republic, with a president elected by universal suffrage, and a theocracy, with a Supreme Leader who is ultimately responsible for state policy, chosen for life by the elected Assembly of Experts. Candidates for both the Assembly of Experts and the presidency are vetted by the appointed Guardian Council
The presidential system is the dominant form of government in Latin America and is also popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. By contrast, there are very few presidential republics in Europe (with Cyprus and Turkey being the only examples). In Asia, the system is used by South Korea, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
In modern usage, a republican system of government is loosely applied to any state which claims this designation. [20] For example, the Dominican Republic under Rafael Trujillo is considered a republic, as is the Republic of Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
Presidential republic: Republics with an elected head of state, where the head of state is also the head of the government. Examples include the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria and Indonesia. People's republic: Republics that include countries like China and Vietnam that are de jure governed for and by the people.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 December 2024. There are 3 pending revisions awaiting review. Form of government This article is about the form of government. For the political ideology, see Republicanism. For other uses, see Republic (disambiguation). Part of the Politics series Basic forms of government List of forms of government ...
A republican system of government is established and the authority of the King of Spain is completely eliminated. Paraguay: 12 October 1813: Republic proclaimed after independence from Spain on 14 May 1811 Argentina: 9 July 1816: Independence won from the Spanish Empire. Republican governments established from 1811 onwards.
Nearly all modern Western-style democracies function as some type of representative democracy: for example, the United Kingdom (a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy), Germany (a federal parliamentary republic), France (a unitary semi-presidential republic), and the United States (a federal presidential republic). [2]
The United States is a federal constitutional republic, while the former Soviet Union was a federal socialist republic. However self-identification is not objective, and as Kopstein and Lichbach argue, defining regimes can be tricky, especially de facto , when both its government and its economy deviate in practice. [ 17 ]