1. Types of
Government

2. After the lesson you should be able to
Identify different types of governments and the (+) and (-) of each.
Determine why there are different types of government.
Make suggestions for a struggling nation.

3. What do “good” governments do?
Make a list of what you think governments should be doing.

4. Brainstorm reasons why nation-states have different types of government systems.
Why do people differ in their believes in the proper role of government?

5. Government Ideas to consider:
Meeting the Purposes of Government
Preventing abuses

6. Economic Ideas to consider:
Efficiency
Division of labor and specialization
Mutual benefits of exchange

7. Efficiency
A level of performance that describes a process that uses the lowest amount of inputs to create the greatest amount of outputs. Efficiency relates to the use of all inputs in producing any given output, including personal time and energy.
: the ability to do something or produce something without wasting materials, time, or energy :

8. Game Theory Idea to consider:
Coordination

9. 1 central government Types of Government Identify + and -
Where is the Power Located?
Unitary
Confederation
Federal
What is the Relationship
Between lawmakers and law
Enforces?
Presidential
Parliamentary
Who can Participate?
Representative Democracy (Republic)
Direct Democracy
Dictatorship
1 central government
Independent states with no or a very weak central government
Division of power between central and local government

10. Unitary
Power

11. Confederation P O W E R

12. Federal P O W E R

13. 1 central government Types of Government Identify + and -
Where is the Power Located?
Unitary
Confederation
Federal
What is the Relationship
Between lawmakers and law
Enforces?
Presidential
Parliamentary
Who can Participate?
Representative Democracy (Republic)
Direct Democracy
Dictatorship
1 central government
Independent states with no or a very weak central government
Division of power between central and local government
Divided
With separated power that is often checked and balanced
Together- executive works for the legislator
Elected lawmakers represent people, people always retain natural rights.
People speak for themselves, majority rules
1 individual or group rules

14. Effectiveness?
Prevention of abuses?
Promotes Freedom and mutual benefits?

15. Self-Interest (invisible hand)
Voluntarily Exchanges with mutual benefits
Division of Labor/Knowledge and Specialization
Economies of Scale- When an increase in size of producer increases efficiency and lowers cost.
Competition

20. For either the Shia or the Sunni
Rank the outcomes in order of preference.
Remember what is important to the groups.
Outcomes
Their side has the most power
Their has less power than the other side
They agree to give up some power and compromise on some important things
They both retain all power and don’t compromise
Keep power
Give up power
Keep power
Give up power

21. What has been the result?
What we have witnessed
What game?
What has been the result?

22. How will you coordinate the 3 groups to create harmony?

23. If there is a desire to get along
Battle of the Sexes
Person 2
Game
Party
Assumptions:
Both want to spend time together
Person 1 prefers the game
Person 2 prefers the party
Game
10, 5
1, 1
Person 1
0, 0
5, 10
Party
What is the best way for both parties to coordinate themselves to avoid the 0,0 outcome?
Communication

24. If there is a desire to get along
Battle of the Sexes
Sunni
Less power
More Power
Assumptions:
Both want to work together
Shia prefers the power
Sunni prefers the power
More power
10, 5
1, 1
Shia
0, 0
5, 10
Less power
What is the best way for both parties to coordinate themselves to avoid the 0,0 outcome?
To work together to avoid a foreign group from occupying

25. If both groups refuse to work together and also include the Kurds, foreign forces will occupy.

26. The politics of Iraq takes place in a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic. It is a multi-party system whereby the executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers as the head of government, as well as the President of Iraq, and legislative power is vested in the Council of Representatives and the Federation Council.
The current Prime Minister of Iraq is Nouri al-Maliki, who holds most of the executive authority and appoints the Council of Ministers, which acts as a cabinet and/or government.