User blog comment:Reximus55/Government Series - Introduction/@comment-3550280-20131020133306

After several days watching this nonsense, I decide to open my mouth:

Rex, Democracy and Republic are cannot being categorized together...

The types of government are divided into two major groups:

1) Based on the election of the head of state

2) Based on the nature of its government

The first group is consisted by "Republic", where the head of state is non-hereditary and elected either by the direct vote, electoral college or the national parliament, "Monarchy", where the head of state is a hereditary position and passed without any concern from the state institutions, and the third form, "Authoritaren Fuhrerstaat", which combined the elements of Republic and Monarchy.

Meanwhile, the second group is consisted by "Autocracy" (government by one), "Aristocracy" (government by few benevolent ones), "Oligarchy" (government by few malevolent ones), "Democracy" (government by many benevolent ones), "Okhlocracy" (government by many malevolent ones), and "Anarchy" (government by none)

So, the two things (Democracy and Republic) essentially cannot being compared by each other.