Scenarios: For each scenario below, explain which type of government would be most helpful in solving the problem. Explain why or you will receive no points for your answer.

1) There is an army marching towards your city – you need to raise a defending army, build walls around the city, and this has to be done fast. The problem is that you don’t have enough money in the government’s treasury to do it, so you’d need to get the upper classes to contribute. Which government would be best to have in this situation?

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2) Your society has several groups of people – different races, ethnicities, and religions. The government has just realized that because people and businesses have been making much more money from trade with other societies, the government collected more taxes and now has extra money. They need to decide how to spend the surplus tax money on the people in a fair way so that each group in society gets some benefits from it. Which government would be the best to have in this situation?

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Democracy

3) There are a lot of poor citizens in your society. They cannot find jobs and so crime is rising. The major types of crimes are that people are stealing, drinking too much, there is domestic violence (because of the drinking, but also because so many men are depressed and angry about being poor), and vandalism of public and private property. Your government needs to find a solution because all this crime is bad for business – people cannot trade because they are afraid to travel and do things in public. Which form of government would be the best to have in this situation?

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Dictatorship,




4) The president of your society used to be very effective – he defended the nation against an attack from a foreign army, he was able to get different political parties to agree on things, and he was elected twice. But two years before the end of his term as president he messed up – he was caught stealing money from the government and using it to buy houses and then sell them. Many people want him to be removed from power, but others believe that he is still a good president and deserves to finish his term, but be fined a huge amount of money as punishment for what he did. Which form of government would be the best to have in this situation?

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Reprsantive democarxy




5) Four different gangs have controlled different areas of your city-state for the past 40 years. Before that, there was a dictator, but he died of a heart attack and when nobody could agree on who should take over, the four men who were his closest began fighting against each other. There is so much conflict between these four gangs in the city-state that every day, regular citizens get hurt or killed. Which form of government would be the best to have in this situation?

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6) Your society has just won a war, but in the process, most of the homes, businesses, roads, and ports have been destroyed. Everybody is tired of war and very depressed. They are losing faith in their country and need a way to come together and fix everything while still having pride in their nation. Which form of government would be best to have in this situation?

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