“What is the ideal form of government?

Can people be trusted to govern themselves?”

Government Around the World

What types of government do you know?

Absolute Monarchy

• Definition

• Five key features

Oligarchy

• Definition

• Five key features

Popular Democracy

• Definition

• Five key features

Dictatorship

• Definition

• Five key features

Theocracy

• Definition

• Five key features

Communist State

• Definition

• Five key features

Where do these world leaders belong?

• On a piece of paper write down the six types of government and underneath place these world leader where they belong.

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

Barack Obama

IranMahmoud Ahmedinejad/ Ali Hoseyni Khamene’i

RussiaValdimir Putin/ Dimitri Medvedev

Hugo Chavez President Hu Jintao

PakistanAsif Ali Zardari

North KoreaKim Jong – il

Great BritainDavid Cameron/ Elizabeth II

World 1900

World 1997