1. QW: Government Write a paragraph to answer the following:
What is a government?
What makes a government successful? (Take into consideration employment, economic growth, poverty, education, power…)

2. Types of Government

3. Role of Government Government: the ruling authority for a community
Keep Order
Pass and enforce laws, establish courts
Provide Security
Prevent crime, protect citizens, conduct foreign relations
Provide Public Services
Libraries, schools, hospitals, parks, water, utilities
Guide the Community
Manage the economy, conduct foreign relations

4. Levels of Government in US
National
Also known as federal or central
Makes decisions for the ENTIRE state
State
Makes decisions for their state
Local
Closest to the people
Makes decisions for county, city, or town

5. 1. Dictatorship
Absolute power is concentrated in a dictator or a single
Cuba (Fidel Castro)
Iraq (Saddam Hussein)

6. 2. Totalitarianism Extends to almost all aspects of people’s lives
China, Cuba, and North Korea
Also examples of Communist governments

7. 3. Monarchy royal hereditary ruler Absolute Monarch
Ruler is head of government
Powers are NOT limited by a constitution or by the law
Qatar, Saudi Arabia
Constitutional Monarchy
Monarch acts as head of state within the guidelines of a constitution
Great Britain, Japan

8. 4. Theocracy
Priests rule in the name of God or a god; state is understood as governed by immediate divine
Vatican City (Rome, Italy)-the Pope

9. 5. Oligarchy
All power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class
Government by the few
Started in Greece, but not strong enough

10. 6. Aristocracy Highest class in certain societies
found in history during the Middle Ages
Does not exist today

11. 7. Democracy
Citizens hold the power to rule
Free elections
USA

12. 8. Republic
Power is held by the people and their elected representatives
USA

13. 9. Federalism
Power is divided between a central authority and state authority
Each level is legally independent of its own jurisdiction
USA