Political Systems

Understand the main types of political system and generally how they work.

Knowledge Node Summary

There are several ways that types of political system can be defined. Typically the following types are listed: Democracy, Republic, Monarchy, Aristocracy, Dictatorship and Democratic Republic. These labels attract idealised definitions which might not be the way any specific example of that type of political system actually work. For instance, in a very large democracy, the reason why individual people vote for elected representatives can become unclear and so the representatives elected might not operate in a democratic way.

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The knowledge named 'Political Systems' is considered to be very important.
In addition, the knowledge is thought to be fairly justifiable knowledge, and is generally learned by study.
The learn time for this node given an understanding of the prerequisites, is about 2 weeks. The estimated learn time for the entire knowledge structure of this node is about 6 months.

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