Editing Political system (section)

== Western socio-cultural paradigmatic-centric analysis ==
{{See|List of forms of government}}
The sociological interest in political systems is figuring out who holds power within the relationship between the government and its people and how the government’s power is used. According to [[Yale]] professor [[Juan José Linz]], there are three main types of political systems today: [[democracies]], 
[[totalitarian regimes]] and, sitting between these two, [[authoritarian regimes]] (with [[hybrid regimes]]).<ref name="LinzLinz2000"/><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> Another modern classification system includes [[monarchies]] as a standalone entity or as a hybrid system of the main three.<ref name="Garcia-AlexanderWooCarlson2017"/> Scholars generally refer to a [[dictatorship]] as either a form of authoritarianism or totalitarianism.<ref name="ToddWaller2015">{{cite book | editor1 = Allan Todd | editor2 = Sally Waller | author1 = Allan Todd | author2 = Sally Waller | date = 10 September 2015 | title = History for the IB Diploma Paper 2 Authoritarian States (20th Century) | publisher = Cambridge University Press | pages = 10– | isbn = 978-1-107-55889-2 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=y_pfCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA10}}</ref>{{sfn|Ezrow|Frantz|2011|p=|pp=14–17}}<ref name="LinzLinz2000"/><ref name="Sondrol">{{Cite journal |last1 = Sondrol |first1 = P. C. |s2cid = 144333167 |title = Totalitarian and Authoritarian Dictators: A Comparison of Fidel Castro and Alfredo Stroessner |journal = Journal of Latin American Studies |volume = 23 |issue = 3 |year = 2009 |pages = 599–620 |doi = 10.1017/S0022216X00015868|jstor = 157386 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/157386|url-access = subscription }}</ref>
 
===Democracy===
{{see|Types of democracy}}
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===Authoritarianism===
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===Totalitarian ===
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===Monarchy===
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===Hybrid ===
{{see|Democratization|Democratic backsliding}}
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