| A | B |
| Anarchy | No government |
| Autocracy | One person or political party has political power |
| Dictatorship | One person has supreme political power |
| Totalitarian | Government exercises absolute power on all aspects of life and takes away the rights of individual citizens |
| Monarchy | Government where there is a king or queen |
| Absolute Monarchy | Government where the king or queen have absolute power |
| Limited Monarchy (Constitutional Monarchy) | Government where the king or queen's power is limited by a constitution or elected body |
| Theocracy | Government that the religion is the acting government and God is the source of government authority |
| Oligarchy | Government where only a few people rule the country |
| Direct Democracy | A form of democracy in which all citizens vote on policies |
| Representative Democracy | A form of democracy in which citizens vote for representatives to vote on policies in their place. |