Government Styles

Direct Democracy
Citizens decide on policy initiatives directly

Democratic Republic
Citizen decide on representatives who decide on policy initiatives on the citizen's behalf

Dictatorship
Marked as a government with a disproportionate amount of power held by executives, typically within one person, however, oligarchy dictatorships are possible. If the executive is one person and they have absolute power, then it becomes a despotism.

Monarchy
A government where the ruler has absolute power and is selected via inheritance, generally the ruler is presumed to have the divine right to rule.

Parliamentary Monarchy
A variation of monarchy where power is divided between the monarch and a democratic body

Theocracy
A variation on monarchies and dictatorships where the head of the state religion is the head of state aswell.

Oligarchy
A government controlled entirely by a small group of people.

Corporatocracy
A political system where policy is defined by corporate interests, general leadership is ran via wealth and nepotism.

Empire
A group of states or country under a single supreme authority. Generally associated with militarism and imperialism.

Anarchism
A government marked by a lack of state, where all decisions are made at a local democratic level.

Separatism
Advocacy of a state of ethnic, religious, governmental, and gender separation from the larger group. Groups that participate in separatism believe attempts at integration with dominant groups compromise their identity.

See: Associated State, Dominion, Chiefdom

Federalism
A mixed or compound mode of government combining a general central or 'federal' government with regional governments. EX: The USA.

See: Federation, Confederation, Devolution

Integration
A type of multinational political union where negotiated power is delegated to an authority by governments of member states.

See: Empire, Hegemony, Unitary State

Democracy
A system of government in which the citizen exercise power directly or elect representatives to form a governing body.

See: Direct Democracy, Representative Democracy, Semi Democracy, etc.

Oligarchy
A system of government in which power rests with a small number of people.

See: Aristocracy, Military Junta, Plutocracy, Stratocracy, Timocracy, Theocracy, Kritarchy, Patricracy, Technocracy

Autocracy
A system of government where power is concentrated in one person.

See: Despotism, illiberal democracy, semi-authoritarian, dictatorship

Monarchy vs Republic (socio-political ideologies)
A scale in which power is manifested in the executive branch.

See: Absolute Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, Directoral System, Legalism, Parliamentary-Republic, Semi-Presidential System, Presidential State

Authoritarian vs Libertarian (socio-economic ideologies)
A scale in which how much government interference deals with the economy.

See: Capitalism, Colonialism, Communism, Distributism, Feudalism, Socialism

Anarchism vs Statism (civil-liberties ideologies)
A scale in which how much government impedes upon civil liberties.

See: Anarchy, Minarchy, Totalitarianism