Types of Government

Webquest

A quote from Winston Churchill:

Task:After researching the types of government, engage in a debate that assesses the validity of Churchill's quote and evaluates advantages and disadvantages of each type of government. In a chart you will describe 10 types of government and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages in order to answer the question.

Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of

government except all those other forms that have been tried from time

to time.

Types of Government

Authoritarian:Autocracy

DictatorshipOligarchy

Absolute monarchyTotalitarian

Democratic:Direct democracy

Representative democracyPresidential democracy

Parliamentary democracyConstitutional monarchy

Websites• http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/government• http://www.stutzfamily.com/mrstutz/WorldAffairs/typesofgovt.html• http://

depts.alverno.edu/dgp/GEC/Types%20of%20Government.html• http://www.historyguy.com/nations/government_types.html• http://

news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/world/united_nations/types_of_government/newsid_2151000/2151893.stm

• https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/notesanddefs.html#2128

• http://home.earthlink.net/~kingsidebishop/id2.html• http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/direct_democracy.htm• http://library.thinkquest.org/07aug/00540/direct_democracy.html• http://www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss/autocracy• http://

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_system_of_government• http://chartsbin.com/view/6kx

Assignment

"Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." -Winston Churchill

Argumentative/Evaluation L1: After researching the types of government,

engage in a debate that assesses the validity of Churchill's quote and evaluates advantages and disadvantages of each type of government. 5