Representation VS Authority

Representative Democracy:

Similarities- Proportional representation, parliamentary democracy and republican democracy all use a voting technique to elected government power.

Competition is accepted

Differences: Proportional Representation citizens vote for a party rather than a specific candidate, republican democracy vote for a president and the president chooses his vice president and each state has two senators. Parliamentary democracy elected executive branch needs support of elected legislative branch.

Proportional representation representatives are assigned according to level of popular support (percentage of vote) rather than parliamentary democracy were as long as you win more ridings you will get more seats.

Unlike Republican democracy and Parliamentary democracy proportional representation is more successful with smaller parties.

Competition is accepted

Authoritarian Governments:

Similarities-Military dictatorship and one party states both promotes unity.  

Economic freedom is accepted

One party state and oligarchy both governments are run by one party.

Competition is rejected

Differences- Military Dictatorship is run by the military while oligarchy and one party state are both run by one party only.

Competition is rejected

Representative Democracy VS Authoritarian Government

Similarities- Representative democracy and authoritarian government both use propaganda to get you to vote for their parties. Representative democracy use subtle commercial while authoritarian governments use a more of a brainwashing technique.

Differences- Authoritarian governments use terror on behalf of the government to get there parties to power while representative democracy uses a fair vote to get there parties to power.

Economic freedom is rejected

Authoritarian governments can be at term as long as they like while representative democracy has set terms that one person can be at power for.

Rule of law is rejected

Parliamentary Democracy- UK and Canada

Republican Democracy- France and USA

Proportional Representation- South Africa, Israel and Venezuela

Monarchy- Iran

Oligarchy- North Korea

One-party state-China

 Military Dictatorships-Burma