Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition

absolutism n
ancien régime n
anti-federalist adj
anti-federalist n
apartheid n
apparatus n (ORGANIZATION)
authoritarian adj
autocracy n
bipartisan adj
capitalism n
capitalist adj
caretaker government n
central government n
collectivism n
confederate adj
constitutional monarchy n
Dem.
democracy n
democrat n
democratic adj
democratize v
despotic adj, at despot n
dictatorship n
dispensation n (SYSTEM)
elective dictatorship n
Fascism n
fascist adj
fascist n
federal adj
federalism n
federalist n
federate v
government n (SYSTEM)
imperialism n
interregnum n
Jim Crow n
junta n
majority rule n
martial law n
Marxist n, adj, at Marxism n
matriarchal adj, at matriarch n
matriarchy n
meritocracy n
monarchy n
nanny state n
nationalist adj
oligarchy n
oppressive adj (CRUEL)
order n (SYSTEM)
patriarchy n
plutocracy n (SYSTEM)
police state n
regime n (MANAGEMENT)
republican n
republican adj
theocracy n
totalitarian adj
tsarist adj, n, at tsar n (RULER)
tyrannical adj
tyranny n
capitalistic, at capitalist adj
democratise, at democratize v
fascistic, at fascist adj
tzarist, at tsar n (RULER)
a reign of terror idiom

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