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