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system of politics and government

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A political system is the set of institutions and processes that a society uses to make and enforce decisions about how to govern itself. It matters because it shapes how power is distributed, what rules people must follow, and how conflicts within society get resolved.

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social system
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legal system
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Political systems
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politics
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form of government
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Encyclopedic overview

In political science, a political system means the form of political organization that can be observed, recognised or otherwise declared by a society or state.

It define the process for making official government decisions. It usually comprizes the governmental legal and economic system, social and cultural system, and other state and government specific systems. However, this is a very simplified view of a much more complex system of categories involving the questions of who should have authority and what the government influence on its people and economy should be.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “political system” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.