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Advantages
- Vote for your leader
- Everyone gets a voice
- Competition allows for bests leader
- Less chance of corruption?!

Disadvantages
- 51% vs 49%; wont always represent all of the country
- Costs a lot of money to campaign
- Elections take a lot of time

Countries: USA, Canada, Norway, Iceland, Finland

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- Predictability
- Create a solid gov't.
- Balance (a modern monarch is typically just a figurehead)
- Saves public money
- Discourages corruptoiin
Smooth transfer of power
- Stronger defense (armies & defensive protocols)
- Efficient (laws only need to be approved by ruling monarch)

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- Promotes inequality of wealth
- Public has no voice
- Difficult to change direction in society
- Supported by local tax policies
- Tyranny is easier to form
- Succession doesn't guarantee competency
- Independent justice isn't present unless it's specifically built into the gov't.
- Prominent socioeconomic class discrimination
- One person controls high stakes

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- Commonwealth realms under Queen Elizabeth II (Eg. Canada, New Zealand, Jamaica and United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland)
- Pope (Vatican City State)
- Japan (the emperor's line of heritage ruling counting back from ancient times)

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1. Decisions Happen Rapidly

2. Women Are Able To Ascend To Positions Of Power

3. Debate Still Exists

4. Reduces societal pressures
5. Encourages creative endeavors
6. Allows anyone to join
7. Encourages a conservative approach

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Advantages
No Red Tape
Laws, policies, and other political changes can happen almost instantly.

2. Very low crime rates

3. Quick progression

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1. Encourages income inequality
2. Disrupts the economy
3. Middle class Is squeezed out
4. Free Speech Falls By The Wayside

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No check or balances.

Very Prone To Collapse
The people tend to get tired of the dictator and their extreme rules very quickly.

Rights of the People are Hindered

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1. Russia
2. Venezuela
3. China

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Cuba
North Korea