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  2. Unitary state - Wikipedia

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    A unitary system of government can be considered to be the opposite of federalism. In federations, the provincial/regional governments share powers with the central government as equal actors through a written constitution, to which the consent of both is required to make amendments. This means that the sub-national units have a right to ...

  3. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    A unitary state is a state governed as a single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions (sub-national units) exercise only the powers that the central government chooses to delegate. The majority of states in the world have a unitary system of government.

  4. List of countries by system of government - Wikipedia

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  5. Government of China - Wikipedia

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    This system is based on the principle of unified state power, in which the legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), is constitutionally enshrined as "the highest state organ of power." As China's political system has no separation of powers , there is only one branch of government which is represented by the legislature.

  6. Presidential system - Wikipedia

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    In a parliamentary system, if important legislation proposed by the incumbent prime minister and his cabinet is "voted down" by a majority of the members of parliament then it is considered a vote of no confidence. The presidential system has no such mechanism, and the legislature has little incentive to appease the president beyond saving face.

  7. Politics of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The UK is a unitary state with a devolved system of government. This contrasts with a federal system, in which sub-parliaments or state parliaments and assemblies have a clearly defined constitutional right to exist and a right to exercise certain constitutionally guaranteed and defined functions and cannot be unilaterally abolished by acts of ...

  8. Newman: In Trump’s economic vision, everybody’s on their own

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    Trump ran on disrupting the status quo and steamrolling a system many voters feel is failing them, even as the government spends record amounts on retiree pensions, healthcare, and other benefits.

  9. List of countries by federal system - Wikipedia

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    A new amendment is proposed because people, especially East Indonesians, argue that the unitary system makes East Indonesians feel disappointed with the existence of distributive justice that is far from expectations, a discriminatory political system, to the oligarchy that has gripped strongly from the center of power to the regions. [34]