Unit 3: Types of Government and Economic Systems
Home Syllabus Resources Unit 1: Unit 2: Unit 3: Unit 4: Unit 5: Unit 6: Unit 7: Unit 8:		Diagram 2: Types of Government  (Use your back key to return to this page) Section 1 Indicator and Supporting Content: Students will analyze political systems in order to evaluate their effectiveness.   identify and define systems of governments and describe differences between each system  identify and analyze various types of government identify and analyze characteristics of authoritarian government identify and compare various forms of democracy compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of each system of government Key Vocabulary authoritarian              direct democracy                   republic autocracy                   federalism                             sovereign confederate                 monarchy                              unitary democracy                   oligarchy  dictatorship                representative democracy    Section 2 Indicator and Supporting Content: Students will analyze how governments answer the basic economic questions of what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce. identify and define the concepts of scarcity, benefits, and opportunity costs examine the basic economic questions and analyze how various types of governments answer each question Key Vocabulary command system                                      market system economics                                               opportunity costs economic benefits                                    scarcity economic costs                                        traditional system Helpful Sites   Types and Systems of Government History for Kids: Learn About Government British Monarchy Australians for Constitutional Monarchy U.S. / China Legislative Update and Resources  China-US Relations CNN.com - US-China relations since 1950 Cambodia Embassy of Cambodia U.S. Library of Congress Country Study - Cambodia Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front Parliament   Story of Parliament  The Center for Voting and Democracy Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor The League of Women's Voters' Democracy Net
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