CHAPTER 5
Political Regimes
INTRODUCTION
According to Roy Macarids, ‘Political Regime embodies the set of rules, procedures, and understandings that formulate the relationship between the governors and the governed.’ In modern times, political regimes are majorly categorized as democratic regimes and non-democratic regimes. The democratic regime types can be classified as electoral democracy, liberal democracy, majoritarian democracy, and participatory democracy. The non-democratic regime types are patrimonialism, bureaucratic authoritarianism, military dictatorship, totalitarianism, and fascism.
DEMOCRATIC REGIMES
The democratic political system is known since the days of ancient Greek, the purest form of democracy through mass meetings was ...
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