Editing Political system (section)

{{Short description|System of politics and government}}
{{Politics| expanded= Systems}}
In [[political science]], a '''political system''' means the form of [[Political organisation|political organization]] that can be observed, recognised or otherwise declared by a [[society]] or [[state (polity)|state]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/political-system | title=Political system &#124; Types, Components, Functions, & Facts &#124; Britannica }}</ref>

It defines the process for making official [[government]] decisions. It usually comprizes the governmental [[legal system|legal]] and [[economic system]], [[social system|social]] and [[cultural system]], and other state and government specific systems. However, this is a very simplified view of a much more complex system of categories involving the questions of who should have authority and what the government influence on its people and economy should be.

Along with a basic sociological and socio-anthropological classification, political systems can be classified on a social-cultural axis relative to the [[liberal values]] prevalent in the [[Western world]], where the spectrum is represented as a continuum between political systems recognized as [[democracies]], 
[[totalitarian regimes]] and, sitting between these two, [[authoritarian regimes]], with a variety of [[hybrid regimes]];<ref name="Dobratz 2015 p. 47">{{cite book | last=Dobratz | first=B.A. | title=Power, Politics, and Society: An Introduction to Political Sociology | publisher=Taylor & Francis | year=2015 | isbn=978-1-317-34529-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RoK9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA47 | access-date=Apr 30, 2023 | page=47}}</ref><ref name="LinzLinz2000">{{cite book | author1 = [[Juan José Linz]] | date = 2000 | title = Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes | publisher =Lynne Rienner Publisher | pages = 143| isbn = 978-1-55587-890-0 | oclc = 1172052725 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8cYk_ABfMJIC&pg=PA143}}</ref> and [[monarchies]] may be also included as a standalone entity or as a hybrid system of the main three.<ref name="Garcia-AlexanderWooCarlson2017">{{cite book | author1 = Ginny Garcia-Alexander | author2 = Hyeyoung Woo | author3 = Matthew J. Carlson | date = 3 November 2017 | title = Social Foundations of Behavior for the Health Sciences | publisher = Springer | pages = 137– | isbn = 978-3-319-64950-4 | oclc = 1013825392 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=y-M8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA137}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://opentextbooks.uregina.ca/sociology/chapter/14-2-types-of-political-systems/#:~:text=The%20major%20types%20of%20political,and%20instead%20rule%20through%20fear | title=14.2 Types of Political Systems | date=8 April 2016 | access-date=19 October 2022 | archive-date=22 October 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022061920/https://opentextbooks.uregina.ca/sociology/chapter/14-2-types-of-political-systems/#:~:text=The%20major%20types%20of%20political,and%20instead%20rule%20through%20fear | url-status=dead }}</ref>