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Types of Goverment - Coggle Diagram
Types of Goverment
Theocracy
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Theocracy was a government from more ancient societies. Examples include: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Vatican. Today there aren't many Theocracy governments globally.
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Pros: Operates efficiently, law enforcement efforts are streamline, has high societal acceptance
Cons: Minority groups are not tolerated, encourages discord, religious intolerance, alters fundamental beliefs, selfish, very little freedom of speech
A ruler uses religious text to create laws, making all laws highly/solely based on religion.
Autocracy
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Autocrats (People in power) gain their power from a large governmental movement. They retain their power until they resign, get thrown out, or die.
Pros: Quick decisions, a clear chain of command, and the most productive form of government.
Cons: Damage morale, cause resentment, micromanagement, and can quickly lead to corruption.
A modern-day country that has an Autocratic government is The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
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Democracy
A system of government where the citizens/public are in change or take part in making decisions for the nation. The citizens of a democratic nation usually vote for their leader/representative. Leaders are elected temporarily by the public. The representatives or sometimes the citizens themselves also get to vote on the laws that should be passed.
Some advantages of democracy include: giving citizens opportunities to shape the government, encourages equality, tends to grow more economically than other types of governments, has more consistency, and usually have patriotic citizens.
Some disadvantages of democracy include: the voting system is reliant on the citizens educating themselves, the structure of democracy depends on the public, encourages mob behavior, and requires more time to process laws.
The United States, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
Oligarchy
"a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution."-Oxford Languages
those who have the most skills and experience are given the most power in a true oligarchy. However, in history most oligarchies thrived off of public obedience or oppression
Sparta was an example of a real world oligarchy. Two kings ruled but there was a 28 member "council of elders" that had limited power
Pros: Oligarchies are free, anyone has potential to rule (including women), Oligarchs rule for their entire lives so there is no reason to create short term solutions, an oligarchy can be established anywhere,
Cons; wealth tends to follow the leaders, the oligarchy almost has complete control over their people, there are no elections, there is not a lot of diversity in oligarchies, they have control over the economy, oligarchies are prone to violence,