Government Forms, Systems, and Philosophies


 * absolute monarchy
 * absolutism
 * anarchy
 * aristocracy
 * autarchy
 * autarky
 * authoritarianism
 * autocracy
 * autonomy
 * benevolent dictatorship
 * bicameral
 * caliphate
 * caretaker government
 * centralism
 * centralization
 * checks and balances
 * city-state
 * civil government
 * civil liberty
 * coalition government
 * collective
 * colonialism
 * commission plan
 * common law
 * commonwealth
 * concurrent powers
 * constitutionalism
 * constitutional monarchy
 * council-manager plan
 * crown
 * decentralization
 * democracy
 * democratism
 * despotism
 * dictatorship
 * direct democracy
 * dirigisme
 * divine right of kings
 * dominion
 * duarchy
 * duumvirate
 * diarchy
 * empire
 * fascism
 * federal government
 * federalism
 * feudalism
 * gerontocracy
 * governance
 * government
 * gynecocracy
 * hagiocracy
 * hierocracy
 * home rule
 * isocracy
 * kingdom
 * limited government
 * local government
 * martial law
 * matriarchy
 * mayor-council plan
 * meritocracy
 * militarism
 * mobocracy
 * monarchism
 * monarchy
 * municipal
 * nationalism
 * neocolonialism
 * ochlocracy
 * officialism
 * oligarchy
 * one-man rule
 * one world
 * pantisocracy
 * parliamentary government
 * participatory democracy
 * paternalism
 * patriarchy
 * pluralism
 * plutocracy
 * police state
 * polis
 * popular sovereignty
 * presidential government
 * principality
 * provisional government
 * regency
 * regime
 * representative democracy
 * republic
 * republicanism
 * self-government
 * self-rule
 * separation of powers
 * social contract
 * sovereignty
 * state government
 * statism
 * stratocracy
 * technocracy
 * thearchy
 * theocracy
 * timocracy
 * totalitarianism
 * town meeting
 * triarchy
 * tricameral
 * triumvirate
 * thranny
 * unicameral
 * unitary government
 * welfare state
 * world federalism
 * world government