Government is the set of formal institutions used by a society to organize itself; government sets rules for general conduct by citizens. These rules are usually based on customs that have evolved in that society. Most governments include formal...

the political system by which a country or community is administered and regulated. Most of the key words commonly used to describe governments, words such as monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy, are of Greek or Roman origin. They have been current for...

The study of government lies at the heart of political science, but there is little unanimity within the discipline as to how it should be studied or as to the types or forms that exist. Indeed, the term itself has a multiplicity of distinct, if...

1 Lexeme-specific property of verbs, adjectives, prepositions, or nouns that determines the morphological realization (especially case) of dependent elements. Government can be subsumed under valence in so far as elements with valence govern the...

// n. 1. Traditionally, any instance of a dependency in which the mere presence of one element (the governor) imposes some requirement upon the form assumed by a second element which is grammatically linked with it (the governed category). For example,...

The term ‘government’ is a general one used to describe both the body that has authority in a given unit—whether national, regional or local—and the whole constitutional system. There are many different forms of government, such...

Political system by which a body of people is administered and regulated. Different levels of government typically have different responsibilities. The level closest to those governed is local government. Regional governments comprise a grouping of...

In the UNITED KINGDOM, the body responsible for the actual running of the country (as opposed to its legislature). It comprises the Prime Minister, formally appointed by the monarch (usually, but not necessarily), being the leader of the majority party...

n. The phenomenon by which certain syntactic rules or processes apply to structures containing certain lexical items but not to those containing other lexical items of the same class. For example, the putative process of Dative Shift, which relates...

n. (also governing relation) A synonym for dependency, preferred especially in Government and Charm Phonology, in which the notion has been considerably elaborated. See the special issue of Phonology, 7:2,...

A government is "the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit,"[1] "the ruling power in a political society,"[2] and the apparatus through which a governing body functions and exercises authority.[3] "Government, with the...