Communism | | a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. |
Totalitarian | | a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority. |
Fascism | | a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. |
Anarchy | | government by a dictator. |
Direct democracy | | a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. |
Constitutional monarchy | | Representative democracy (also indirect democracy, representative republic, or psephocracy) is a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy. |
Absolute monarchy | | A constitutional monarchy is a form of government in which a monarch acts as head of state within the parameters of a written (i.e., codified), unwritten (i.e., uncodified) or blended constitution. |
Oligarchy | | an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. |
Republic | | a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. |
Representative democracy | | Direct democracy (also known as pure democracy) is a form of democracy in which people decide (e.g. vote on, form consensus on) policy initiatives directly. This differs from the majority of modern Western-style democracies, which are representative democracies. |
Dictationship | | absolute monarchy definition. Rule by one person |
Theocracy | | relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. |