W9.1 Government

 

1) Summary

    A government is a social control structure that governs an organized society, usually a state and is comprised of a legislative, executive, and judiciary. It gives a select group of people in society the authority to establish and enforce laws. Most governments are run by a political party that organizes officials and candidates. A coalition government is formed when various parties join forces to establish a government. A dominant-party system exists in a state that has a single-party government inside a multiparty system. Many nations have constitutions, and modern political systems such as democracies, totalitarian regimes, and authoritarian governments exist. Autocracy is a form of governance in which supreme authority is concentrated in one person, with absolute monarchy being the most common historically. Tyranny, despotism, and dictatorship are more examples. Aristocracy is a governing system characterized by a limited elite ruling class, sometimes known as landed timocracy or plutocracy. Democracy is a form of governance in which citizens wield power via voting and discourse. Small city-states arose 5,000 years ago as a result of agricultural and water management efforts, paving the way for governments. National government size and scale rose dramatically in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Political science categorization is a taxonomy of polities, as identifying a government form is challenging owing to the origins of various systems as socioeconomic movements and conflicting political ideologies. Because of the complexities of political systems, determining a type of governance is difficult.

2) New items 

    Political party vs Party system: A political party is an organization that organizes candidates for elections in a country, often with similar political beliefs and advocating ideological or policy goals. A party system refers to a democratic country's government system, assuming fundamental characteristics such as government rule, mass public support, and internal processes for finance, information, and nomination regulation.

3) Question

    "Is the abolition of monarchy our future?" Why are monarchies no longer used? Historical forms of governance include monarchy, aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, and tyranny. Monarchism in countries such as the United Kingdom, Spain, and Thailand represents hereditary power; however, the sovereign no longer possesses political power but remains important in the life of the country. Decolonization and independence led to monarchy abolition in former colonies, including those created by Spain, which was the case in my home country Mexico. The First Mexican Empire, established in 1821, lasted until the emperor's abdication in 1823. The Provisional Government took power in 1824, and the First Mexican Republic was proclaimed in 1824. The Second Mexican Empire, influenced by French intervention, lasted from 1864 to 1867 when Emperor Maximilian I was executed. I think that at some point the monarchies that continue as of today will eventually disappear for good just like it has happened in the past but it will take time as royalty today is treated more like the term "celebrity".

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Zulema Gaxiola