100 Examples of Status Forms

A Condition It is the set of political and legal institutions that regulate and control a society in a delimited territory and, therefore, it is the body that exercises sovereignty in a country, a region or a place.

But not all States are the same, since there are different forms of State that are classified according to how the structure of administrative power is organized territorially.

The forms of State differ from the forms of government, because they indicate how the territory, population and government, and because they allow States to be classified as unitary, federal, regional or confederate.

Instead, forms of government determine how institutions or power are related executive, legislative, and judicial to classify states as monarchies, republics, or aristocracies.

• See also: unitary and federal states

State Forms

States can be classified according to how they are organized territorially in:

• unitary states. They have a central government that is responsible for making decisions that affect the entire population of a territory. For this reason, in this type of state, there is a single authority that exercises sovereignty and a single constitution and each one of the powers, the executive, the legislative and the juridical, has scope in the whole country. There are two types of unitary states:
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• centralized. They are those in which a single government makes all the decisions. For example: France.
• decentralized. They are those in which a single government makes most of the decisions, but in which the different regions have relative autonomy. For example: Chili.

• federal states. They have a government that determines the rules that govern the entire territory, but they are made up of states, territories, dependencies, cantons, states or provinces with greater or lesser political autonomy and constitutional. For example: Germany.
• regional states. They are made up of a set of regions that have greater political and legislative autonomy from the central government than the federal states. For example: United Kingdom.
• confederate states. They are made up of different States that have a common objective and that are united in a confederation by means of a treaty. Each of the members has its own autonomy and sovereignty and, generally, can decide when to leave the confederation. For example:Swiss Confederation.

Example of state forms

Examples of unitary states

Afghanistan	Egypt	Peru
Albanian	The Savior	Poland
Algeria	Slovenia	Portugal
Bangladesh	France	Czech Republic
Barbados	Greece	Dominican Republic
bolivia	Guatemala	People's Republic of China
botswana	Honduras	Romania
Bulgaria	Indonesia	Senegal
Cameroon	Iran	Sierra Leone
Chili	Ireland	Singapore
Colombia	Italy	Syria
Cyprus	Laos	Somalia
North Korea	Libya	South Africa
Costa Rica	Mozambique	Sudan
Croatia	Nicaragua	Tunisia
Cuba	Panama	Turkey
Ecuador	Paraguay	Uruguay

Examples of federal states

Argentina	Comoros	Mexico
Australia	United Arab Emirates	Nigeria
Austria	Federated States of Micronesia	Pakistan
Belgium	United States of America	Palau
burma	Ethiopia	Russia
Bosnia and Herzegovina	India	Saint Kitts and Nevis
Brazil	Iraq	Somalia
Canada	Malaysia	Venezuela

Examples of regional states

The Spanish Constitution of 1931

The Italian Constitution of 1947

Serbian

Examples of Confederate States

American Confederation of Venezuela (1810-1812)	German Confederation (1815-1867)	Serbian and Montenegrin Confederation (2003-2006)
Argentine Confederation (1831-1861)	Peru-Bolivian Confederation (1836-1839)	Confederate States of America (1861-1865)

Interactive test to practice

Follow with:

• secular states
• Differences between federalism and centralism
• Differences between unitary and federal
• Authoritarianism, totalitarianism and democracy
• Federalism

References

• Confederacy. (June 22, 2022). Available in: Wikipedia
• State forms. (March 19, 2022). Available in: Wikipedia
• Gomez Diaz de Leon, C. (2015). Political system and forms of government. Political science: multidisciplinary perspective. Tirant lo Blanch, 29-48. Available in: Digital Academic Repository of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León
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