PCL Comparing Forms of government

Institutions and officials organized to establish and carry out public policy.

• Government

• Authority

• Sovereignty

Which of these is a common feature of market economies?

• Public ownership of farms and factories

• Economic stability with no recessions

• Production of high quality goods and services

In a command economy, who decides how much to produce?

• Government planners

• Individual Consumers

• Corporate shareholders

Which of these factors distinguishes dictators from monarchs?

• How they acquire and obtain power

• How they make economic decisions

• How they regard the rights of citizens.

The United States has this form of government?

• parliamentary democracy

• Constitutional Republic

• direct democracy

The idea that the government rules by consent of the people being ruled.

• Divine Right

• Social Contract

• Socialism

A  system of government in which power is divided between national and regional governments

• Federal system

• Sovereignty

• Federal System

The right to exercise supreme authority over a region, a group of people, or oneself?

• Government

• Sovereignty

• Legitimacy

In some states, tax increases are determined by referendum (approval by the voters).  This practice best represents a ___________ form of government.

• Theocracy

• direct democracy

• dictatorship

A system of government headed by religious leaders

• Theocracy

• Direct Democracy

• Dictatorship