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Non Democratic Governments: List a few.
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Personal dictatorships, monarchies, military regimes, one-party regimes, theocracies, and illiberal regimes.
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Personal dictatorship
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Is based in the power of a single strong leader who usually realies on charasmatic or traditional authority to maintain power.
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Military Regimes
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The institution of military dominates politics.
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One Party Regime
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Is dominated by a strong political party that relies upon a broad membership as a source of political control.
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Theocracy
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A rare form of government though the one that characterizes present day Iran, a leader claims to rule on behalf of God.
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Illiberal Regime
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Retains the basic structures of a democracy but does not protect civil liberties
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Communist Regimes
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One party regimes in which a communist party controls most of a countrys political and economic system. Some have been described as totalitarian.
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Totalitarian
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Feature a strong official ideology that seeks to transform aspects of the state, society, and the economy, using organizations and/ or force.
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Monarchy
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Relies on traditional legitimacy
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Co-optation
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Members of the public are given beneficial relationship w/ the state/government. i.e. corporatism, clientelism, rent seeking and/ or personality cult
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Corporatism
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Citizen participation is channeled into state-sanctioned groups
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Clientism
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The state provides benefits to groups of its political supporters
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Rent Seeking
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Government allows its supporters to occupy positions of power in order to monopolize state benefits
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Personality cults
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The most often employed mechanism of control in totalitarian regimes. The state sponsored exaltation of a leader. I.E. Stalin or Ayatollah Komeini
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Party System
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The nature of elections and other forms of competition amoung political parties.
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