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Forms of Government have been tried, and will be
tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or
all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government
except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…"
Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947. Greek philosopher Plato discussed five
forms of governments or regimes: aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy
and tyranny. Today the world is ruled by the system of government called
corporatocracy and cyberocracy. Forms of government include monarchy, autocracy,
dictatorship, fascism, stratocracy, plutocracy, maoism, anarchy, bureaucracy,
feudalism, and technocracy.
In
Monarchy, a monarch
is the head of state.
In
Dictatorship, one
person rules with supreme authority.
In
Military Dictatorship, the military collectively rules.
In
Oligarchy, a country is governed by a few people.
In
Theocracy, a country is governed by ordained
members.
A representative democracy is a system in which the people vote
for delegates to represent their interests in a parliament. In Australia,
members of parliament are elected to the Senate or the House of Representatives
to represent the Australian people and make laws on their behalf. Examples Of
Representative Democracies:
Parliamentary Republic (India, Poland)
Federal
Republic (Argentina, Brazil, Germany)
Democratic Republic (United States of
America, Indonesia)
Forms of Government. Gerard O’Donnell, Mastering
Sociology. Macmillan Master Series. Abstract: Totalitarian governments are the
usual forms of government both in the past and in the modern world. Essentially
a totalitarian state is a country controlled by one man, ‘an autocracy’, or a
group, ‘an oligarchy’. Because the power of any state rests ultimately on its
armed forces those filling key roles in totalitarian states are very often
members of the military.