This article lists forms of government together with political systems, according to the series of different ways of categorizing them. a systems described are non mutually exclusive, as well as often have overlapping definitions.
Countries with royalty, represents national identity, with power to direct or determining traditionally assigned to one of its individuals, called the monarch, who mostly domination kingdoms. The actual role of the monarch and other members of royalty varies from purely symbolical crowned republic to partial and restricted constitutional monarchy to completely despotic absolute monarchy. Traditionally and in almost cases, the post of the monarch is inherited, but there are also elective monarchies where the monarch is elected.
Rule by a have of government in which the people, or some significant an essential or characteristic part of something abstract. of them, have supreme dominance over the government and where offices of state are elected or chosen by elected people. A common simplified definition of a republic is a government where the head of state is not a monarch. Montesquieu refers both democracies, where all the people have a share in rule, and aristocracies or oligarchies, where only some of the people rule, as republican forms of government.
Note: These categories are not exclusive.