Power Distribution
In this system, power is shared between a powerful central government and regional authorities like states or provinces.
What is a Federal system?
In this system, citizens directly elect the executive leader, who serves separately from the legislature.
What is a Presidential Democracy?
A government form where one ruler or small elite retains absolute control, severely restricting citizen choice.
What is an Autocracy?
Country A’s citizens vote for representatives in parliament, and the majority party selects the chief executive.
What is a Parliamentary Democracy?
In this government structure, one central authority holds all the power to make laws and decisions, leaving local authorities with no power.
What is a Unitary system?
In this democratic structure, citizens elect members of parliament, and the majority party selects the chief executive.
What is a Parliamentary Democracy?
Type of democracy where citizens elect leaders to make laws and decisions on their behalf.
What is a Representative Democracy?
Country B divides power between a central authority and provincial state governments that have their own legislatures.
What is a Federal System?
This is a weak or loose alliance of independent states that keep their sovereignty and primarily align for defense and trade.
What is a Confederation?
Type of democracy where citizens vote directly on laws and policies themselves.
What is a Direct Democracy?
The two subcategories of autocracy
What are Dictatorship and Monarchy?
Independent states form a loose partnership solely to coordinate international trade while keeping full sovereignty.
What is a Confederation?
Two countries that are examples of a federal distribution of power.
What are the U.S. and Mexico?
The structural concept associated with presidential democracy where executive, judicial, and legislative branches remain distinct.
What is Separation of Powers?
The level of citizen participation found in a country like Cuba
What is severely restricted?
Country C has an appointed executive leader, severely restricted participation, and power concentrated entirely in the central authority.
What is an Autocratic / Unitary State?
A coastal region complains that a central capital controls all decisions and local municipalities lack power. Name the power structure they currently operate under.
What is a Unitary system?
The structural concept associated with parliamentary democracy where executive and legislative functions overlap.
What is Fusion of Powers?
High citizen participation in a democratic/federal state relies heavily on these.
What are free, multi-party elections?
To grant regional power to local municipalities currently controlled by a single capital, it should transition out of this power structure.
What is a Unitary system?