Form of government - the members of a social organization who are in power

POLITICAL SYSTEM
Social Group - people sharing some social relation
Party, Political Party - an organization to gain political power; "in 1992 Perot tried to organize a third
party at the national level"
Political Entity, Political Unit - a unit with political responsibilities
Autocracy, Autarchy - a political system governed by a single individual
Constitutionalism - a constitutional system of government (usually with a written constitution)
Republic, Democracy, Commonwealth - a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body
of citizens who can elect people to represent them
Diarchy, Dyarchy - a form of government having two joint rulers
Gerontocracy - a political system governed by old men
Gynarchy, Gynecocracy - a political system governed by a woman
Hegemony - the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others; "the hegemony of a
single member state is not incompatible with a genuine confederation"; "to say they have priority is not to
say they have complete hegemony"; "the consolidation of the United States' hegemony over a new
international economic system"
Mobocracy, Ochlocracy - a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the
masses
Oligarchy - a political system governed by a few people; "one of his cardinal convictions was that Britain
was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy"; "the big cities were notoriously in the hands of the
oligarchy of local businessmen"
Plutocracy - a political system governed by the wealthy people
Republic - a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; "the head of state in a republic is
usually a president"
Technocracy - a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control;
"technocracy was described as that society in which those who govern justify themselves by appeal to
technical experts who justify themselves by appeal to scientific forms of knowledge"
Theocracy - a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)