ආණ්ඩුව

Detail from Elihu Vedder, Government (1896). Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.

ආණ්ඩුව යන සිංහල වචනය ස්වෛරීය රාජ්‍යයක, ෆෙඩරල් රාජ්‍යයක ප්‍රාන්තයක හෝ යටත් විජිතයක පාලනය ගෙනයන ව්‍යුහය හැඳින්වීම සඳහා යොදා ගැනේ. මෙයට ආසන්නතම ඉංග්‍රීසි වදන Government වන අතර එම වදන ආණ්ඩුව යන තේරුම හැර වෙනත් පාලන ඒකක සඳහාද සඳහාද යෙදේ.

ආණ්ඩුවක ව්‍යුහය

• විධායකය
• ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකය
• අධිකරණය

විවිධ ආණ්ඩු ක්‍රම

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The U.S. Capitol houses the law making (legislative)branch of American government.

• අරාජික (Anarchy) - Absence, or lack of government.
• ව්‍යවස්ථාපිත රජාණ්ඩු (Constitutional Monarchy) - A government that has a monarch, but his/her power is strictly limited by the government. Example: United Kingdom.
• ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික ආණ්ඩු (Democracy) - Rule by a government where the people as a whole hold the power. It may be exercised by them (direct democracy), or through representatives chosen by them (representative democracy).
• Despotism - Governing by a single individual, the despot, who wields all the power and authority of the state. Other persons are subsidiary to the despot.
• Dictatorship - Rule by an individual who has full power over the country. See also Autocracy and Stratocracy.
• රජාණ්ඩු (Monarchy) - Rule by an individual who has inherited the role and expects to bequeath it to their heir.
• රදල ආණ්ඩු (Oligarchy) - Rule by a small group of people who share similar interests or family relations.
• ධනපති ආණ්ඩු (Plutocracy) - A government composed of the wealthy class.
• පූජක තන්ත්‍ර (Theocracy) - Rule by a religious elite.
• Tyranny - Governing by a single ruler, the tyrant, holding vast, if not absolute power through a state.