Editing Separation of powers (section)

=== Additional types ===
{{See also|Government agency|Constitutional court|Election commission}}
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Adjudicating constitutional disputes is sometimes conceptually distinguished from other types of power, because applying the often unusually indeterminate provisions of constitutions tends to call for exceptional methods to come to reasoned decisions. Administration is sometimes proposed as a hybrid function, combining aspects of the three other functions; opponents of this view conceive of the actions of administrative agencies as consisting of the three established functions being exercised next to each other merely in fact. Supervision and integrity-assuring activities (e.g., supervision of elections), as well as mediating functions ({{lang|fr|pouvoir neutre}}), are also in some instances regarded as their own type, rather than a subset or combination of other types. For instance, Sweden has four powers, judicial, executive, legislative and administrative branches.

One example of a country with more than 3 branches is [[Taiwan]], which uses a five-branch system. This system consists of the [[Executive Yuan]], [[Legislative Yuan]], [[Judicial Yuan]], [[Control Yuan]], and [[Examination Yuan]].