Talk:List of countries by system of government/alternate

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Communist state[edit]

Ámerica — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.4.9.110 (talk) 21:08, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Constitutional democracy[edit]

Constitutional monarchy[edit]

  • Antigua and Barbuda: constitutional monarchy with UK-style parliament
  • Bahrain: constitutional hereditary monarchy
  • Belgium: federal parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarch
  • Cambodia: multiparty democracy under a constitutional monarchy established in September 1993
  • Denmark: constitutional monarchy
  • Grenada: constitutional monarchy with Westminster-style parliament
  • Japan: constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government
  • Jordan: constitutional monarchy
  • Kuwait: nominal constitutional monarchy
  • Lesotho: parliamentary constitutional monarchy
  • Liechtenstein: hereditary constitutional monarchy on a democratic and parliamentary basis
  • Luxembourg: constitutional monarchy
  • Malaysia: constitutional monarchy
    note: Malaya (what is now Peninsular Malaysia) formed 31 August 1957; Federation of Malaysia (Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore) formed 9 July 1963 (Singapore left the Federation on 9 August 1965); nominally headed by the paramount ruler and a bicameral Parliament consisting of a nonelected upper house and an elected lower house; all of the Peninsular Malaysian states have hereditary rulers except Melaka and Penang; Sabah and Sarawak in East Malaysia have governors appointed by the Malaysian Government; powers of state governments are limited by the federal constitution; under the terms of federation, Sabah and Sarawak retain certain constitutional prerogatives (e.g., the right to maintain their own immigration controls); Sabah - currently holds 20 seats in House of Representatives and will hold 25 seats after the next election; Sarawak holds 28 seats in House of Representatives
  • Monaco: constitutional monarchy
  • Morocco: constitutional monarchy
  • Netherlands: constitutional monarchy
  • Norway: constitutional monarchy
  • Papua New Guinea: constitutional monarchy with parliamentary democracy
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis: constitutional monarchy with Westminster-style parliament
  • Samoa: constitutional monarchy under native chief
  • Spain: parliamentary monarchy
  • Sweden: constitutional monarchy
  • Thailand: constitutional monarchy
  • Tonga: hereditary constitutional monarchy
  • Tuvalu: constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy; began debating republic status in 1992
  • United Kingdom: constitutional monarchy

Constitutional republic[edit]

Federal republic[edit]

Monarchy[edit]

Parliamentary democracy[edit]

  • Andorra: parliamentary democracy (since March 1993) that retains as its chiefs of state a coprincipality; the two princes are the president of France and bishop of Seo de Urgel, Spain, who are represented locally by coprinces' representatives
  • Aruba: parliamentary democracy
  • The Bahamas: constitutional parliamentary democracy
  • Bangladesh: parliamentary democracy
  • Barbados: parliamentary democracy; independent sovereign state within the Commonwealth
  • Belize: parliamentary democracy
  • Bermuda: parliamentary British overseas territory with internal self-government
  • Bulgaria: parliamentary democracy
  • Canada: confederation with parliamentary democracy
  • Cook Islands: self-governing parliamentary democracy
  • Croatia: presidential/parliamentary democracy
  • Czech Republic: parliamentary democracy
  • Dominica: parliamentary democracy; republic within the Commonwealth
  • Greenland: parliamentary democracy within a constitutional monarchy
  • Hungary: parliamentary democracy
  • Israel: parliamentary democracy
  • Latvia: parliamentary democracy
  • Lithuania: parliamentary democracy
  • Jamaica: constitutional parliamentary democracy
  • Republic of Macedonia: parliamentary democracy
  • Isle of Man: parliamentary democracy
  • Mauritius: parliamentary democracy
  • Mongolia: parliamentary
  • Nepal: parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy
  • Netherlands Antilles: parliamentary
  • New Zealand: parliamentary democracy
  • Niue: self-governing parliamentary democracy
  • Portugal: parliamentary democracy
  • Saint Lucia: Westminster-style parliamentary democracy
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: parliamentary democracy; independent sovereign state within the Commonwealth
  • Slovakia: parliamentary democracy
  • Slovenia: parliamentary democratic republic
  • Solomon Islands: parliamentary democracy tending toward anarchy
  • Trinidad and Tobago: parliamentary democracy
  • Turkey: republican parliamentary democracy
  • Zimbabwe: parliamentary democracy

Parliamentary republic[edit]

  • Botswana: parliamentary republic
  • Burkina Faso: parliamentary republic
  • Estonia: parliamentary republic
  • Greece: parliamentary republic; monarchy rejected by referendum 8 December 1974
  • Singapore: parliamentary republic
  • Vanuatu: parliamentary republic

Republic[edit]

Other democracies[edit]

  • Albania: emerging democracy
  • Australia: democratic, federal-state system recognizing the British monarch as sovereign
  • Dominican Republic: representative democracy
  • Hong Kong: limited democracy
  • Macau: limited democracy
  • Malawi: multiparty democracy
  • Taiwan: multiparty democratic regime headed by popularly-elected president and unicameral legislature

Transitional governments[edit]

  • Afghanistan: transitional
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo: dictatorship; presumably undergoing a transition to representative government
  • Eritrea: transitional government
    note: following a successful referendum on independence for the Autonomous Region of Eritrea on 23-25 April 1993, a National Assembly, composed entirely of the People's Front for Democracy and Justice or PFDJ, was established as a transitional legislature; a Constitutional Commission was also established to draft a constitution; Isaias Afworki was elected president by the transitional legislature; the constitution, ratified in May 1997, did not enter into effect, pending parliamentary and presidential elections; parliamentary elections had been scheduled in December 2001, but were postponed indefinitely; currently the sole legal party is the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ)
  • Iraq: in transition following April 2003 defeat of Saddam Husayn regime by US-led coalition
  • Nigeria: republic transitioning from military to civilian rule
  • Somalia: no permanent national government; transitional, parliamentary national government
  • Togo: republic under transition to multiparty democratic rule

Other governments[edit]

  • Brunei: constitutional sultanate
  • Burma: military regime
  • Cayman Islands: British crown colony
  • Haiti: elected government
  • Iran: theocratic republic
  • Libya: Jamahiriya (a state of the masses) in theory, governed by the populace through local councils; in fact, a military dictatorship
  • Marshall Islands: constitutional government in free association with the US; the Compact of Free Association entered into force 21 October 1986
  • Federated States of Micronesia: constitutional government in free association with the US; the Compact of Free Association entered into force 3 November 1986; economic provisions of the Compact are being renegotiated
  • Northern Mariana Islands: commonwealth; self-governing with locally elected governor, lieutenant governor, and legislature
  • Palau: constitutional government in free association with the US; the Compact of Free Association entered into force 1 October 1994
  • Puerto Rico: commonwealth
  • Sudan: authoritarian regime - ruling military junta took power in 1989; government is run by an alliance of the military and the National Congress Party (NCP), formerly the National Islamic Front (NIF), which espouses an Islamist platform
  • Vatican City: ecclesiastical
  • Western Sahara: legal status of territory and issue of sovereignty unresolved; territory contested by Morocco and Polisario Front (Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro), which in February 1976 formally proclaimed a government-in-exile of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), led by President Mohamed Abdelaziz; territory partitioned between Morocco and Mauritania in April 1976, with Morocco acquiring northern two-thirds; Mauritania, under pressure from Polisario guerrillas, abandoned all claims to its portion in August 1979; Morocco moved to occupy that sector shortly thereafter and has since asserted administrative control; the Polisario's government-in-exile was seated as an OAU member in 1984; guerrilla activities continued sporadically, until a UN-monitored cease-fire was implemented 6 September 1991
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