Communism
- Practice: System of government in which the government controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
- Theory: It would be hard to pull off successfully
- 5 Communist Countries: Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos.
- Karl Marx is a German philosopher who started communism
Democracy
- Direct democracy is when the people have all the power.
- Switzerland has some aspects of DD
- Many countries do not have DD, because it is hard to get everyone involved
- Representative democracy is where people vote for someone to represent them.
- Examples: US, Cambodia, Chile, Dominican Republic, and Guam; there are a lot of countries with this democracy
Monarchy
- Absolute Monarchy is when a monarch has full power over a country with no guidelines.
- Examples: Vatican City, Brunei, Swaziland, Saudi Arabia, Oman
- Constitutional Monarchy is when a monarch is limited to the amount of power they have.
- Examples: UK, Thailand, Spain, Norway, Monaco
Dictatorship
- When one person rules over everything
- Examples: Hitler, Sadam Husain
Anarchy
- Absence of government
- Somalia has had no government since 1992; government was set up a year ago but have not got country in order yet
Comments