1. Forms of Government

2. What type of government do we have in the United States
What type of government do we have in the United States? Define/Explain your answer by using the three standards of government classification (Who can participate?, Where does the power go?, What is the relationship between the legislative and executive branch?
Bell Ringer

3. Classifying Governments
Governments can be classified by three different standards: (Step 1) Who can participate in the governing process. (Step 2) Where does the power go? (Step 3) What is the relationship between the legislative and executive powers?

4. Who Can Participate? Democracy Step 1:
Supreme political authority rests with the people
Indirect (Representative) Democracy
Direct Democracy
A direct democracy : will of people translated into law directly by the people
In an indirect (representative) democracy small group of people are chosen by the people to act as their representatives expresses the popular will
Who Can Participate?

5. More on these later… More on these later… Democracy Direct Democracy
Representative Democracy
Presidential Democracy System
Parliamentary Democracy System
More on these later…
More on these later…

6. Who Can Participate? Step 1: Dictatorship Autocracy Oligarchy
A dictatorship exists where those who rule cannot be held responsible to the will of the people.
Autocracy
Oligarchy
Autocracy a government in which a single person holds unlimited political power
Oligarchy a government where power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite
Who Can Participate?

7. Types of Autocratic Governments
Autocracy – Rule by one
Totalitarian Dictatorship
Monarchy (king or queen)
Absolute Monarchy (complete and unlimited power)
Constitutional Monarchy (shares power with elected parliament and prime minister)
Theocracy

8. Kim Jong Il Short list of accomplishments:
Glorious birth “double rainbow”
Walking at 3 weeks, talking at 8 weeks
Wrote 1,500 books in university (2 years)…6 operas (boom!)
Designed tallest tower in N. Korea
Best golf score…EVER. 1st time played 11 holes in one
Declared fashion icon
Invented cheeseburger, called it double bread with meat

9. A unitary government has all powers held by a single, central agency.
Where Does the Power Go?
Step 2:
Unitary Government
A unitary government has all powers held by a single, central agency.

10. Federal Government Where Does the Power Go?
A federal government is one in which the powers of government are divided between a central government and several local governments.
An authority superior to both the central and local governments makes this division of power on a geographic basis.

11. A confederation is an alliance of independent states.
Where Does the Power Go?
Confederate Government
A confederation is an alliance of independent states.

12. Relationship Between Legislative and Executive Branches
Step 3:

13. Parliamentary and Presidential
Examples of Representative Democratic Governments
Parliamentary and Presidential
Parliamentary democracy
Presidential democracy
Aruba, Australia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, United Kingdom
United States, Mexico, Brazil

14. Bell Ringer Which country is… A federal presidential democracy?
A unitary presidential democracy?
A unitary presidential, dictatorship?

15. Forms of Government