Types and Systems of Government

What type of government is ruled by one person, usually the child of the previous ruler?

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Theocracy

What type of government is characterized by the rule of a small number of elite people?

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Parliamentary

What is a type of government in which all eligible members are able to vote on key issues and/or for elected representatives?

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Authoritarian

What is a form of government ruled by one person who usually seized power through unlawful means?

• Dictatorship

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Parliamentary

What is a form of government wherein the eligible voters elect representatives to pass and implement the laws?

• Indirect Democracy, or Constitutional Republicanism

• Direct Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

What type of government is based primarily on religious principles?

• Theocracy

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

What type of system is governed as a single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions (sub-national units) exercise only the powers that the central government chooses to delegate?

• Unitary

• Federal

• Confederate

• Parliamentary

In what government system is power mainly held in local jurisdictions?

• Confederate

• Federal

• Unitary

• Monarchy

In what government system is there a balance of powers between national and local levels?

• Federal

• Confederate

• Unitary

• Oligarchy

In what type of government does the state, usually headed by a single ruler, control every business and even the private lives of its citizens?

• Totalitariansm

• Unitary

• Federal

• Parliamentary