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== Other empirical and conceptual problems ==
On the surface, identifying a form of government appears to be easy. Most would say that the United States is a [[democratic republic]] while the former Soviet Union was a [[totalitarian state]]. However, as Kopstein and Lichbach (2005:4) argue, defining regimes is tricky. Defining a form of government is especially problematic when trying to identify those elements that are essential to that form. There appears to be a disparity between being able to identify a form of government and identifying the necessary characteristics of that form. For example, in trying to identify the essential characteristics of a [[democracy]], one might say "elections." However, both citizens of the former [[Soviet Union]] and citizens of the [[United States]] voted for
One approach is to further elaborate on the nature of the characteristics found within each regime. In the example of the [[US]] and the [[Soviet Union]], both did conduct elections, and yet one important difference between these two regimes is that the [[USSR]] had a [[single-party system]], with all other parties being outlawed. In contrast, the United States effectively has a [[bipartisan]] system with political parties being regulated, but not forbidden. A system generally seen as a [[representative democracy]] (for instance [[Canada]], [[India]] and the [[United States]]) may also include measures providing for: a degree of [[direct democracy]] in the form of [[referendum]]s and for [[deliberative democracy]] in the form of the extensive processes required for constitutional amendment.
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