Government Comparison: Eastern Hemisphere

Government Comparison:Eastern Hemisphere

Types of Government in the Eastern Hemisphere

Anarchy in SomaliaMonarchy in Saudi Arabia

Theocracy in Iran

Totalitarianism in North Korea and

China

Democracy in India

Dictatorship in Libya and Zimbabwe

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How do American citizens participate in our democracy?

American Democracy

Democracy in India

India

Democracy in India

Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil

Dr. Manmohan Singh

President

Prime Minister

Parliament

House of States House of the People

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How is democracy in India similar to democracy in the United States?

Theocracy in Iran

Theocracy in Iran

Theocracy in Iran

Supreme LeaderAyatollah Ali Khamenei

PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad

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How is Iran’s theocracy similar to

India’s democracy?

How is Iran’s theocracy different

than India’s democracy?

Monarchy in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

The modern Saudi state was founded in 1932 byABD AL-AZIZ bin Abd al-Rahman Al SAUD (Ibn Saud) • Head of government: King • Legislative branch: 150 members appointed by the king• Population: 26,000,000• Religion: Muslim• Language: Arabic

King AbdullahAbsolute Monarch

Crown Prince SultanWas heir to throne, died on Saturday

Crown Prince NayefHeir to throne

Important Terms

• Quran or Koran: Religious book of Islam• Sharia: Strict Islamic law—based on Koran

Think about…

How do dictators get and keep power?

How do dictators get and keep power?

• weakness in a government • financial crisis which a dictator sees and takes advantage of• uninfomed and uneducated public who is persuaded by the

dictator • Once the dictator takes hold they rule by threats on peoples lives

or livelyhoods so no one will confront them. Any one who confronts them is delt with quickly and severly so everyone else gets the message not to mess with them.

• The dictator knows if he or she lets opposition grow they will be gone.

Dictatorship in Libya and Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe and Libya

President Mugabe Quadaffi

Tunisia: Where all the Middle East Protests Began

Tunisia

President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali: Ruled for 23 years• 1989 Tunisia holds elections. Six opposition parties participate on this occasion but Ben Ali is

elected president with 99% of the vote. His party, the RCD, wins all 141 seats in the national assembly

• 1994 Ben Ali is the only presidential candidate in 1994, winning 99.9% of the vote, drawing international condemnation

• 1999 Ben Ali receives 99.44% of the votes in the general election to win a third spell as the country's most powerful person

• 2002 Ben Ali amends Tunisia's constitution to allow a president to stay in power until the age of 75 and be re-elected unlimited times

• 2004 Ben Ali is re-elected once more, again receiving an unlikely 94.5% of the votes. Opposition party the Democratic Progressives withdraws two days before the vote, branding Tunisia's political system "a masquerade of democracy"

• 2006 A dozen hardline Islamists are killed in shoot-outs with security forces in the capital, Tunis. Lawyers say hundreds of people had been arrested on suspicion of links with terrorist groups since 2003, when the authorities gained new powers of arrest

Totalitarianism in North Korea

North Korea

Totalitarianism in North Korea• Totalitarianism is a concept used to describe a

government that regulates nearly every aspect of public and private life.

• Government establishes complete political, social, and cultural control over the citizens, and are usually headed by a charismatic leader.

• North Korea is organizedas a dictatorship, where all citizens honor the leader Kim Jong Il

Kim Kong Il

• Conditioning begins at birth and continues throughout adulthood about the love of its leader. North Korean people are subjected to education surrounding the government.

• The regime in North Korea derives its influence over the minds and hearts of the people through its absolute control and manipulation of all information made available to the local population. – All literature contains stories pertaining to these ideologies, all aspects of the media are

controlled completely by the regime. – By controlling what a person hears, reads, and sees, one controls what he or she thinks and

believes. – Pictures of the leaders are found on the walls of the classrooms, found around city squares

and are there for people to worship. – Microphones blare all day long about government policies and tell of the heroics of their

leader. – The private life has been entirely abolished.

Anarchy in Somalia