Government can be classified in three manners:
(1) who participates,
(2) geographic distribution of power, and
(3) legislative/executive relationship.
Who can participate is generally broken down into two forms of government,
democracy or dictatorship
While the legislative/executive relationship is broken down into
presidential or parliamentary
The geographic distribution of power is broken down into unitary, federal, and confederation (confederal).
Confederal System of Government ::
A system of government where power is located with the independent states and there is little power in the central government.
Today, no nation follows a confederal system. Organizations, like the European Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States, are based on the ideas of a confederal system. Several nations make up these organizations, but they still retain the majority of their independence.
