Government

Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state. Though citizenship is often conflated with nationality in today's English-speaking world, international law does not usually use the term citizenship to refer to nationality; these two notions are conceptually different dimensions of collective membership.

Bureaucracy ( ) is a system of organization where laws or regulatory authority are implemented by civil servants (non-elected officials). Historically, a bureaucracy was a government administration managed by departments staffed with non-elected officials. Today, bureaucracy is the administrative system governing any large institution, whether publicly owned or privately owned. The public administration in many jurisdictions is an example of bureaucracy, as is any centralized hierarchical structure of an institution, including corporations, societies, nonprofit organizations, and clubs.

legal declaration or de facto acts by a government allowing assumption of extraordinary powers

temporary or emergency government body/authority created when none exists

system in which multiple political parties have the capacity to gain control of government offices, separately or in coalition

seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located

thumb|upright=1.6|World citizens living under different political regimes, as defined by Polity IV In politics, a regime (also spelled régime) is a system of government that determines access to public office, and the extent of power held by officials. The two broad categories of regimes are democratic and autocratic. A key similarity across all regimes is the presence of rulers of both formal and informal institutions, which interact dynamically to adapt to changes to their environment.

leader of a tribal society or chiefdom

type of temporary government

One or multiple governing parties that hold an absolute majority of seats in a legislature

A polity is a group of people with a collective identity, who are organized by some form of political, institutionalized, social relations, and have a capacity to mobilize resources. It is the unit or entity of a political community or body politic.

thumb|Equestrian portrait of Duke de Olivares|Equestrian portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares by [[Diego Velázquez ()]]

participation of citizens in various policy decisions and planning processes

concept in accounting, concerning public sector financial activity

principle that civilian political leadership exercises ultimate authority over decisions of military strategy

official review of events or actions ordered by a government body

mass resignation or threat thereof, of top-level government advisers

maintenance of peace within a state

period in which a legislature is convened

governmental use of artificial intelligence

politically titled person who, in reality, is controlled by outside forces

historic term for the state in East Asia

government of a federated state (state, province, ...) in a federation

Elected officials serving in multiple positions simultaneously

idea in democracy that the public must have faith in government

session when two (or more) normally separate deliberative bodies meet for a specific purpose