Talk:Government

Why are imaginary forms of governement like Uniocracy listed?

Map

The map has apparently since been removed. -- Beland (talk) 08:15, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Missing Map Legend

Although the text below the map intended to show the world's various forms of government says that a legend is available if you click on the illustration, no such legend appears.

Correction to map.

In the world map showing which states are monarchies, Jan Mayen and the Faroe Islands are both depicted as being UK territory. That is inaccurate: Jan Mayen is Norwegian and the Faroe Islands are Danish. 86.28.218.22 (talk) 11:44, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Bullet-pointed List of Government Types

In the list of bullet-pointed government systems, I believe the systems that do not exist today should be marked as such, because the list is quite long and, other than the maps, not much about individual countries is shown.

Kento Arendt (talk) 00:47, 21 March 2012 (UTC)Kento

Objection to the "merge the Political System page with the Government page" suggestion

Political Systems exist in a vast number of non-government groups/organizations/un-declared collectivism's/ as well as in many temporary/spur-of-the-moment collectives, and also between many explicitly opposed groups/organizations. However: Political Systems do not necessarily exist in every Government; Also: Political Systems are often the means by which Anti-Government movements such as secession, revolution, coup de tat's, impeachment, assassination, or mass-exodus' are imagined, invented, and proliferated. Although Anti-Government movements are- or nearly always become- Government-Replacement(s), the Political-System(s) can neither be considered Government(s) on their own- Nor can the Governments necessarily be considered Political-Systems- since Politics "is the process by which coercive power is legitimately applied."

In short: Governments breed (whether purposely or not) Political-Systems, and in turn- Political-Systems feed, breed, play with, OR kick, neglect, starve, euthanize, or run over Governments with a car...

LarchOye (talk) 08:46, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

• Do Not Merge! ~ Government and Political system are two different things. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:45, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

OK, the main problem was the section Political_system#Basic_forms_of_political_systems which was essentially a shorter version of the list at Government#Forms_of_government. I have merged that and removed the tag, leaving the articles separate. The distinction and relationship between "political system" and "form of government" is not clear from the article; perhaps this section was on the wrong side of that. Clarification welcome! -- Beland (talk) 08:55, 4 May 2012 (UTC)