Government
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Terms
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- -ISM
- "doctrine, theory, system of principles"
- communism
- (literally, "a theory of common [ownership]") a system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single party holds power, claiming to make progress towards a higher social order in which all goods are equally (communally) shared by the people
- oligarchy
- (literally, "rule by a few") government by a few, especially by a small faction or persons or families
- dictatorship
- (literally, "the condition where there is one who says") A state or government ruled by an absolute ruler
- monarchy
- (literally, "rule by one") government by a sovereign, such as a king or empress, usually for life and by hereditary right
- plutocracy
- (literally, "power of the wealthy") government by the wealthy
- -ARCHY
- "rule, government"
- democracy
- (literally, "power of the people") government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives
- republic
- (literally, "thing of the people") a political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president
- socialism
- (literally, a theory of companion [ownership]") any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy
- autocracy
- (literally, "power of oneself/one") government by a single person'having unlimited power
- anarchy
- (literally, without rule) absence or any form of political authority
- theocracy
- (literally, "power of god") a government ruled or subject to religious authority
- -CRACY
- "Strength, power," "government, rule"
- despotism
- (literally, "a doctrine of a master") a government or political system in which the ruler exercises absolute power
- fascism
- (literally, "a doctrine of the bundle [of rods]," representing force) a system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent and socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism
- aristocracy
- (literally, "power of the best") government by a hereditary ruling class