Brain Jogger
• Would you rather help make an important
decision or would you rather have someone
else make the decision?
• Explain your answer in 3 sentences, please!!!
Different types of
Citizen Participation
This is a basic question that we must look at
when understanding a country’s government.
Advantages and Disadvantages in
Government
• As we go through the notes you will need to fill out
this chart.
Autocracy
Definition:
Advantage
Oligarchy
Definition:
Disadvantage
ME Country Example:
Advantage
Democracy
Definition:
Disadvantage
ME Country Example:
Advantage
Disadvantage
ME Country Example:
Autocracy
• Def: A single person has complete
power.
• AKA authoritarian, dictatorship,
monarchy
Autocracies of the World
Autocracy
Advantages
•Things get done
quicker
•Good leader could
make good
decisions (think of
King Arthur)
Disadvantages
•Bad decision made
by one person.
•The citizens do not
have a say.
•One person cannot
be an expert at
everything!!!
Autocracy Examples
• Czarist Russia
• Nazi Germany
• Soviet Union under Stalin
Oligarchy
• Very few people have complete power.
• “Government by the Few”
Oligarchy
Advantages
•More people to
make decisions
than Autocracy.
•Decisions are still
made pretty
quickly.
Disadvantages
•People still do not
get a say
•Greed=bad rulers
Oligarchy-Examples
• Not many left. Communist Russia for some
part of the time.
Democracy
• The control is put in the hands of the citizens.
Democracy
Advantages
•The people get a say
(Voting)
•More people can be
experts.
•If your leaders make a
bad decision, replace
your leaders.
Disadvantages
•Decisions take longer to
make.
•Stupid voters=stupid
decisions.
•What the majority of
people want is not
always right!
Democracy-Examples
• Germany, United Kingdom, France, etc.
• Most European Countries
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• What does the word “Democracy” mean?
Rule by the people
• Where did one of the first Democracies start?
Athens, Greece
• Who got to vote in the Athenian society?
Citizen from birth, no slave, man, adult, and own
your own home.
• What type of Democracy do we have?
Republic or Representative Democracy
Brain Jogger
Matching (Just write the answers)
Democracy
1. ____________
The people Rule
2. ____________
A few people rule all
Oligarchy
Autocracy
3. ____________
One person rules
Confederation The States/Local govt. have the power
4. ____________
Unitary
5. ____________
The National/Central government has all the power
Federal
6. ____________
There is a division of Power between the states and local govt.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
Unitary
Federal
Autocracy
Confederation
Oligarchy
Democracy