Editing Regime (section)

== Usage ==
 
According to [[Yale]] professor [[Juan José Linz]] there are three main types of political regimes today: [[democracies]], 
[[totalitarian regimes]], and [[authoritarian regimes]], with [[hybrid regime]]s sitting between these categories.<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><ref name="Michie2014">{{cite book | editor = Jonathan Michie | date = 3 February 2014 | title = Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences | publisher = Routledge | page = 95 | isbn = 978-1-135-93226-8 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ip_IAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA95}}</ref>   

The term regime is often used critically to portray a leader as corrupt or undemocratic.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Regime {{!}} Autocratic, Democratic & Totalitarian {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/regime |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> While the term originally referred to any type of government, in modern usage it often has a negative [[connotation]], implying [[authoritarianism]] or [[dictatorship]]. [[Merriam-Webster]] defines a regime simply as a form of government, while the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] defines it as "a government, especially an authoritarian one." 

In contemporary academic discourse, the term "regime" is used more broadly than in popular or journalistic contexts. It refers to "an intermediate stratum between the government, which is responsible for day-to-day decision-making and can be changed relatively easily, and the state, which encompasses a complex bureaucracy tasked with a wide range of coercive and administrative functions."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ufheil-Somers |first=Amanda |date=December 2, 2014 |title=The Breakdown of the GCC Initiative |url=https://merip.org/2014/12/the-breakdown-of-the-gcc-initiative/ |website=MERIP}}</ref> In [[global studies]] and [[international relations]], the concept of ''regime'' is also used to name international regulatory agencies (see [[International regime]]), which lie outside of the control of national governments. Some authors thus distinguish analytically between institutions and regimes while recognizing that they are bound up with each other:

{{blockquote|Institutions as we describe them are publicly enacted, relatively-enduring bodies of practice, procedures and norms, ranging from formalized legal entities such as the WTO to more informal but legally-buttressed and abiding sets of practices and regimes such as the liberal capitalist market. The key phrases here are 'publicly enacted' and 'relatively enduring'. The phrase 'publicly enacted' in this sense implies active projection, legal sanction, and often as not, some kind of opposition.<ref name="James_Palen">{{Cite book | year= 2007 | last1= James | first1= Paul | author-link= Paul James (academic) | last2= Palen | first2= Ronen | title= Globalization and Economy, Vol. 3: Global Economic Regimes and Institutions | url= https://www.academia.edu/4251331 | publisher= Sage Publications | location= London | page=xiv}}</ref>}}

Regimes can thus be defined as sets of protocols and norms embedded either in institutions or institutionalized practices – formal such as states or informal such as the "liberal trade regime" – that are publicly enacted and relatively enduring.<ref name="James_Palen" />It is common to tie an individual or ideology to a government regime i.e. Putin's regime in Russia or China's Communist regime.