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Basic forms of government

Power structure

Separation

Associated state Dominion Chiefdom

Federalism

Federation Confederation Devolution

Integration

Empire Hegemony Unitary state

Administrative division

Power source

Democracy

power of many

Direct Representative Liberal Social Demarchy Others

Oligarchy

power of few

Anocracy Aristocracy Plutocracy Kleptocracy Kakistocracy Kraterocracy Stratocracy Synarchy Timocracy Meritocracy Technocracy Geniocracy Noocracy Kritarchy Particracy Ergatocracy Netocracy Capitalist state Socialist state

Autocracy

power of one

Despotism Dictatorship Military dictatorship

Others

Anarchy Theocracy

Power ideology

Monarchy vs. republic

socio-political ideologies

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Authoritarian vs. libertarian

socio-economic ideologies

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Global vs. local

geo-cultural ideologies

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A republic (Latin: res publica) is a form of government in which the country is considered a "public matter", not the private concern or property of the rulers. The primary positions of power within a republic are not inherited, but are attained through democracy, oligarchy or autocracy. It is a form of government under which the head of state is not a monarch