form of government

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form of government - the members of a social organization who are in power political system social group - people sharing some social relation party, political party - an organization to gain political power; "in 1992 Perot tried to organize a third party at the national level" political entity, political unit - a unit with political responsibilities autocracy, autarchy - a political system governed by a single individual constitutionalism - a constitutional system of government (usually with a written constitution) republic, democracy, commonwealth - a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them diarchy, dyarchy - a form of government having two joint rulers gerontocracy - a political system governed by old men gynarchy, gynecocracy - a political system governed by a woman hegemony - the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others; "the hegemony of a single member state is not incompatible with a genuine confederation"; "to say they have priority is not to say they have complete hegemony"; "the consolidation of the United States' hegemony over a new international economic system" mobocracy, ochlocracy - a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses oligarchy - a political system governed by a few people; "one of his cardinal convictions was that Britain was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy"; "the big cities were notoriously in the hands of the oligarchy of local businessmen" plutocracy - a political system governed by the wealthy people republic - a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; "the head of state in a republic is usually a president" technocracy - a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control; "technocracy was described as that society in which those who govern justify themselves by appeal to technical experts who justify themselves by appeal to scientific forms of knowledge" theocracy - a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided) social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system, structure - the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family"