Transcript TYPES OF GOVERNMENTS - Winston Knoll Collegiate

…EXPLAINED USING
COWS!
 Advantages: protects individual rights,
input is taken from many different
sources, people elect their
government
 Disadvantages: takes more time to
make decisions, more costly
 Examples: Canada, Japan, Australia
 You have two cows.
 After milking your cows, you and your neighbors all
vote on who should get the milk. Majority rules!
 Advantages: organized and efficient; there are no
public protests or riots
 Disadvantages: limited individual rights, uncertain
transition of power, usually dependent on the military,
no debate, no free press, no opposition parties
 Examples: Sudan, North Korea, Venezuela
 Synonyms: dictatorship, authoritarianism
 You have two cows.
 The Supreme Leader orders the military to take
the cows, and gives you nothing for them
 If you complain about it, they put you in jail, draft
you into the army, or shoot you
 Advantages: stable, controlled, traditional, unifying
 Disadvantages: No criteria (other than birth) for
ruling, expensive, monarch is remote from everyday
people, limited individual rights, no voting
 Examples: Saudi Arabia, Oman, Monaco
 You have two cows.
 The monarch, who just happens to have been
born into the right family, makes you give him ½
the milk so he can get it for free
 If you complain, the monarch will take both your
cows and the milk.
 Advantages: if a law needs to be passed that will
benefit the people, it can be passed very quickly.
Control is centralized.
 Disadvantages: complete loss of individual rights &
freedoms
 Example: Italy under Benito Mussolini
 You have two cows. The government takes
both, hires you to take care of them and sells
you the milk
 If you disagree, they send in soldiers to shoot
either you or your cows
 You join an underground resistance group
 Advantages: All members of the economy share
benefits. High level of services
 Disadvantages: High taxes, lack of incentives to
work hard
 Examples: Sri Lanka, Holland, Denmark.
 You have two cows
 The government makes you give one to your
neighbour, so that you are both equal
 You get to keep one glass of milk each day, but
you have to give the rest of the milk to the
government
 Advantages: In times of need, everyone gets their
fair share (slogan: “from each according to his
ability, to each according to his need”)
 Disadvantages: very limited political freedoms, lack
of individual rights
 Examples: China, Russia (pre 1991), Vietnam,
Cuba
 The State takes both and gives you some milk
 Advantages: unity, no debates over religion,
punishments for offences are usually clear,
citizens tend to be obedient
 Disadvantages: No separation between church
and state, some citizens forced to express beliefs
against their will
 Examples: Vatican City is a theocratic state.
 You have two cows.
 The government tells you that if you want to keep your
cows and continue farming, you have to follow the
religion of the leaders.
 Advantages—individuals can do whatever they
want without interference from the government,
no taxes
 Disadvantages—no government services are
provided, people are left to fend for themselves
 Examples: Parts of the Congo and Somalia are
near a state of anarchy. In many instances,
warlords are ruling portions of the nations.
 You have two cows.
 Power hungry thugs (formerly your neighbours) come
to steal them and kill you and your whole family
 There are no laws or police to protect you.
 You have two cows.
 You go on strike
because you want
three cows.
 You go to lunch and
drink wine.
Life is good.
 You have two cows.
 You feed them
sheep’s brains and
they go mad.
 The government
doesn't do
anything.
 You have two
cows.
 You sell one
and buy a bull.
 Go away! What I do with
my cows is my own
business.
 Actually, I pretty much
let the cows do
whatever they want
anyway…
 You are associated with* two differently- aged (but
no less valuable to society) bovines of a nonspecified gender.
* the concept of “ownership” is a symbol of our elitist,
warmongering, intolerant past
 a modern movement in art and literature that tries to
express unusual things in the subconscious mind
 Example: Salvador Dali
 You have two aardvarks.
 The government paints
one green and requires
you to take harmonica
lessons.