Editing Government (section)

===Modern basic political systems===
According to [[Yale]] professor [[Juan José Linz]], there a three main types of [[political system]]s today: [[democracy|democracies]],
[[totalitarian regime]]s and, sitting between these two, [[authoritarianism|authoritarian regimes]] with [[hybrid regime]]s.<ref name="LinzLinz2000" /><ref name="Michie2014">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ip_IAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA95 |title=Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences |date=3 February 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-93226-8 |editor-last=Jonathan Michie |page=95 |access-date=20 October 2022 |archive-date=22 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422130238/https://books.google.com/books?id=ip_IAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA95 |url-status=live }}</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 |last1=Todd |first1=Allan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y_pfCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA10 |title=History for the IB Diploma Paper 2 AuthoritariaAuthoritarian States (20th Century) |last2=Waller |first2=Sally |date=10 September 2015 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-55889-2 |editor-last=Todd |editor-first=Allan |pages=10– |editor-last2=Waller |editor-first2=Sally |access-date=20 October 2022 |archive-date=22 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422130238/https://books.google.com/books?id=y_pfCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA10 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="LinzLinz2000" /><ref name="Sondrol">{{Cite journal |last=Sondrol |first=P. C. |date=2009 |title=Totalitarian and Authoritarian Dictators: A Comparison of Fidel Castro and Alfredo Stroessner |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/157386 |journal=Journal of Latin American Studies |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=599–620 |doi=10.1017/S0022216X00015868 |jstor=157386 |s2cid=144333167 |access-date=20 October 2022 |archive-date=8 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308100323/https://www.jstor.org/stable/157386 |url-status=live  |issn=0022-216X }}</ref>