13 questions
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
In what system of government do individual citizens make the laws directly by voting, without electing representatives?
Direct Democracy
Indirect Democracy, or Constitutional Republicanism
Anarchy
Monarchy
Oligarchy
What term describes the absence of any government?
Anarchy
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Democracy
Republic
In what category of government do the majority of citizens have very little or no political input?
Authoritarian
Direct Democracy
Indirect Democracy
Republic