Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. social science concepts
5. political concepts

Narrower term/s

• [government by location or context][+]
  • provincial government
  • state government
  • federal government
  • local government [+]
    • municipal government
• [government by form][+]
  • despotism [NP]
  • democracies [NP]
  • dictatorships [NP]
  • monarchies [NP]
  • theocracies [NP]
  • suzerainties [NP]
  • aristocracies [NP]
  • parliamentary democracies [NP]
  • parliamentary monarchies [NP]
  • oligarchies [NP]

Anotations

Scope note:

The political concept according to which a nation or community is governed, defined by the nature of the community governed, such as civil government or ecclesiastical government, or the kind of organization adopted, such as monarchical government or republican government. To refer to the bodies themselves which exercise the authority to govern, use “governments (administrative).”