types of government and what they stand for?

Question

im having a hard time understanding types of governmemnt and figuring out what each one stands for.

Answer 1

There are many different ways to classify and organize govts.
One of the simplest is how power is distributed.

Democracy is where the people vote to make decisions. In a pure (polyarchal) democracy, everyone votes on every issue directly. In a representative republic, we elect people to make the decisions for us.

Monarchy is rule by a crown -- one central individual. A parliamentary monarch has most of the day-to-day power delegated to ministers, who may be elected by the people or appointed. A delegatory republic has representatives of the people appointed by the crown, but otherwise functions as a democratic republic.

Fascism is a concentration of power into a rigid hierarchy, where personal liberties are restricted. Fascism can result from a representative republic, or a monarchy, or any other way where someone can seize and hold power. By dictionary definition, any fascist govt must be right-wing conservative, since the rigid restrictive hierarchy is directly opposed to the liberal egalitarian model of civil liberties.

Other hybrid forms exist -- rule (or voting) by an elite noble class, or based on wealth or property ownership, etc.

The other way to organize governments is by the economic models they follow.

Capitalism requires individual ownership of property.
Socialism promotes govt control (ownership or regulation) of major industry, whereas communism dictates community (govt) ownership of all resources and significant property.

Any of those three can exist in any political model. So, its just as easy to have a fascist capitalist government as a it is to have a democratic communist government.

Most recently, the common combinations have been fascist-socialist (Soviet Union, China), monarchy-socialist (England). The USA is a democratic republic with a hybrid capitalist-socialist model.

"What each one stands for" is not answerable. Political and economic models don't stand for anything, outside the requirements of their structure.

Answer 2

funny you should ask, I just read about this tonight. In 1933 FDR, had the military training manual (Training Manual No. TM 2000-25 on Citizenship, U.S. History and the Constitution complied in 1928 by the U.S. War Department, to teach our young men in the services the fundamental principles upon which our Government was founded) withdrawn from the Government Printing Office, and for the last 77 years we have been brainwashed into calling our "Constitutional Republic" a Democracy. The bad thing about this as an example Karl Marx said: "Democracy is the road to Socialism". and Thomas Jefferson said:”A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine“. and he also said: “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not”.

Answer 3

Two types of government: religious and non religious.