Syllabus for GP assessment:

Types of government

1. Totalitarianism - Totalitarianism is a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws
individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high if not complete degree of
control and regulation over public and private life.

2. Authoritarianism -form of social organisation characterized by submission to authority

3. Constitutional monarchy - Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic
monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority by a constitution and is not alone in
making decisions.

4. Democracy - system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state.

5. Federal Republic - A federal republic is a federation of states with a republican form of government. At its core, the literal
meaning of the word republic when used to reference a form of government means: "a country that is governed by elected
representatives and by an elected leader (such as a president) rather than by a monarch".

6. Direct and indirect democracy - Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the electorate decides on
policy initiatives without elected representatives as proxies. Representative democracy, also known as indirect democracy
or electoral democracy, is a type of democracy where elected delegates represent a group of people, in contrast to direct
democracy.

7. Hierarchical - A hierarchical organization or hierarchical organisation (see spelling differences) is an organizational

structure where every entity in the organization, except one, is subordinate to a single other entity.

8. Oligarchy- form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. These people may or may not be
distinguished by one or several characteristics, such as nobility, fame, wealth, education, or corporate, religious, political,
or military control.

9. Aristocracy- A form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocrats.

10. Monarchy- A monarchy is a form of government in which a person, the monarch, is head of state for life or until abdication.

11. Absolute monarchy - Absolute monarchy (or Absolutism as a doctrine) is a form of monarchy in which the monarch rules in
their own right. In this kind of monarchy, the king is sometimes limited by a constitution (since modern times). However, in
some absolute monarchies, the king is by no means limited and has absolute power. These are often hereditary
monarchies.