1. Brain Jogger
Would you rather help make an important decision or would you rather have someone else make the decision?
Explain your answer in 3 sentences, please!!!

2. Different types of Citizen Participation
This is a basic question that we must look at when understanding a country’s government.

3. Advantages and Disadvantages in Government
Autocracy
Definition:
Oligarchy
Democracy
Advantage
Disadvantage
ME Country Example:

4. Advantages and Disadvantages in Government
Autocracy
Definition: A single person has complete power
Oligarchy
Definition: Very few have complete power
Democracy
Definition: Control is in the hands of the citizens
Advantage
Disadvantage
Things get done quicker
Good leader could make good decisions (think of King Arthur)
Bad decision made by one person.
The citizens do not have a say.
One person cannot be an expert at everything!!!
More people to make decisions than Autocracy.
Decisions are still made pretty quickly.
People still do not get a say
Greed=bad rulers
The people get a say (Voting)
More people can be experts.
If your leaders make a bad decision, replace your leaders.
Decisions take longer to make.
Stupid voters=stupid decisions.
What the majority of people want is not always right!
Country Example:
North Korea (Kim Jong Un)
Iran, Saudi Arabia
Turkey

5. Autocracy Definition: A single person has complete power.
AKA authoritarian, dictatorship, monarchy

7. Autocracies of the World

8. Autocracy Disadvantages Advantages Things get done quicker
Good leader could make good decisions (think of King Arthur)
Bad decision made by one person.
The citizens do not have a say.
One person cannot be an expert at everything!!!

9. Autocracy Examples Czarist Russia Nazi Germany
Soviet Union under Stalin

10. Oligarchy
Very few people have complete power.
“Government by the Few”

11. Oligarchy Disadvantages Advantages
More people to make decisions than Autocracy.
Decisions are still made pretty quickly.
People still do not get a say
Greed=bad rulers

12. Oligarchy-Examples
Not many left. Communist Russia for some part of the time.

13. Democracy
The control is put in the hands of the citizens.

14. Democracy Disadvantages Advantages The people get a say (Voting)
More people can be experts.
If your leaders make a bad decision, replace your leaders.
Decisions take longer to make.
Stupid voters=stupid decisions.
What the majority of people want is not always right!

15. Democracy-Examples Germany, United Kingdom, France, etc.
Most European Countries

16. What does the word “Democracy” mean?
What does the word “Democracy” mean?
Rule by the people
Where did one of the first Democracies start?
Athens, Greece
Who got to vote in the Athenian society?
Citizen from birth, no slave, man, adult, and own your own home.
What type of Democracy do we have?
Republic or Representative Democracy

17. Brain Jogger Matching (Just write the answers)
____________ The people Rule
____________ A few people rule all
____________ One person rules
____________ The States/Local govt. have the power
____________ The National/Central government has all the power
____________ There is a division of Power between the states and local govt.
Unitary
Federal
Autocracy
Confederation
Oligarchy
Democracy
Democracy
Oligarchy
Autocracy
Confederation
Unitary
Federal