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Basic forms of government
Power structure
Separation
Associated state Dominion Chiefdom
Federalism
Federation Confederation Devolution
Integration
Empire Hegemony Unitary state
Administrative division
Power source
Democracy
power of many
Direct Representative Liberal Social Demarchy Others
Oligarchy
power of few
Anocracy Aristocracy Plutocracy Kleptocracy Kakistocracy Kraterocracy Stratocracy Synarchy Timocracy Meritocracy Technocracy Geniocracy Noocracy Kritarchy Particracy Ergatocracy Netocracy Capitalist state Socialist state
Autocracy
power of one
Despotism Dictatorship Military dictatorship
Others
Anarchy Theocracy
Power ideology
Monarchy vs. republic
socio-political ideologies
Absolute Legalist
Constitutional
Parliamentary Directorial Semi-presidential Presidential
Authoritarian vs. libertarian
socio-economic ideologies
Tribalism Despotism Feudalism Colonialism Distributism Anarchism Socialism Communism Totalitarianism
Global vs. local
geo-cultural ideologies
Commune City-state National government Intergovernmental organisation World government
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A republic (Latin: res publica) is a form of government in which the country is considered a “public matter”, not the private concern or property of the rulers. The primary positions of power within a republic are not inherited, but are attained through democracy, oligarchy or autocracy. It is a form of government under which the head of state is not a monarch
