Government
System or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
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Administration (government)
The term administration, as used in the context of government, differs according to jurisdiction.
Governance
All the processes of interactions be they through the laws, norms, power or language of an organized society over a social system .
It is done by the government of a state, by a market, or by a network.
State (polity)
Centralized political organization that imposes and enforces rules over a population within a territory.
A state is not synonymous with a government, as stateless governments like the Haudenosaunee Confederacy exist.
Monarchy
A monarchy is a form of government in which a person, the monarch, is head of state for life or until abdication.
Liberal democracy
Liberal democracy is the combination of a liberal political ideology that operates under an indirect democratic form of government.
Comparative politics
Field in political science characterized either by the use of the comparative method or other empirical methods to explore politics both within and between countries.
When applied to specific fields of study, comparative politics may be referred to by other names, such as comparative government (the comparative study of forms of government).
Political system
In political science, a political system means the type of political organization that can be recognized, observed or otherwise declared by a state.
It defines the process for making official government decisions.
Aristocracy
Aristocracy is a form of government that places strength in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocrats.
Polity
Identifiable political entity – a group of people with a collective identity, who are organized by some form of institutionalized social relations, and have a capacity to mobilize resources.
Polities do not need to be in control of any geographic areas, as not all political entities and governments have controlled the resources of one fixed geographic area.
Constitution
Aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed.
After that, many governments ruled by special codes of written laws.