Dictators or several people can rule {autocracy}|, but political institutions are free and power does not centralize.
One person can have non-hereditary rule {despotism}|.
One person can gain authority through force and hold all authority {dictatorship}|.
Governments {fascism}| can control all life aspects, supposedly for public good. Fascism often has ethnocentrism and class society.
Police power can be for political purposes {police state}|.
Government can be by religious leaders {theocracy}|.
Governments {totalitarianism}| can try to eliminate all political subsystems or their freedoms. Identification with strong leader, vicarious sense of power through aggression against other groups, and feeling of belonging to a strong political party contribute to totalitarianism.
Rulers can have all power {tyranny}|.
King and queens assume power by heredity or through election by nobles {monarchy}|. Monarchs have absolute power.
Constitution and separate legislature, executive, and judicial systems can control ruler power {constitutional monarchy}|. King or queen can be head of state, with only ceremonial power.
6-Political Science-Government-Kinds
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