Government Systems
Every kind of regime and how each one works and ends: monarchies, democracies and their designs, authoritarian and totalitarian states, hybrid regimes, theocracies, juntas, technocracies, federations and the regions that want out of them, and the economic and political ideologies underneath them. Brought to October: Hungary's new government and its two-thirds majority, Iran's succession in wartime, Venezuela after Maduro's capture, the coup belt's latest attempts, the youth uprisings from Dhaka to Antananarivo, Quebec's sovereigntist victory, and the campaigns before Brazil's runoff, Israel's election, and the American midterms. Where the field argues, from whether the United States is backsliding and whether China has returned to totalitarianism to whether populism threatens democracy and whether democracy causes growth, each side makes its case before the evidence. Two worked examples: one country's vote under four electoral systems, and the four tests that decide whether a coup survives. Opens with the leaders of 74 states, with their ages, years in office, and ratings, and a Who's Who.