TYPES OF GOVERNMENT

UNITARY SYSTEM

• Power is held in the central govt.
• Legal power is located in the central gov.

PROS

• Uniformity
• Fewer conflics
• Less duplication
• Less hoops to jump through

CONS

• Out of touch
• Slow response time
• Lack of community
• Less checks and balances

FEDERAL SYSTEM

• A way of dividing the power between a central gov and jurisdictions
• The means of dividing the power and functions of gov and central gov.
• And a specified number of geographical defined regional jurisdictions.

PROS

• Separation of powers
• Checks and balances
• Increased citizen participation
• Gov responsiveness

CONS

• Inefficiencief
• Redundancy
• Policy failures
• Race to the bottom

CONFEDERAL SYSTEM

• The central gov is weak and regional gov are powerful
• A league of sovereign states in which a limited central.
• Gov exercises few independent powers.

PROS

• Keeps power at local levels
• Minimizes growth of central gov
• Member states can cooperate and matters of common concern
• Local gov have a great deal of freedom to act as they wish

CONS

• Decentralized federal power
• Weakened the nations ability to trade for foreign goods
• Left a central gov unanle to generate its own operating funds
• Could not force individual states to help other states