monarchical

Since Britain was also monarchical, so the equation is - relatively- balanced.

It is now chiefly used to denote any non-monarchical state headed by an elected or appointed president.

Political scientists tend to talk more of 'liberal democracy' (whether republican or monarchical) v 'electoral autocracy' etc.

No matter how you look at it, patents are nothing but a relic of Monarchical times.

Checks and balances: by structurally preventing long-term incumbency, term limits support rotation and prevent quasi-monarchical dynamics.

If we all did what you said, we would be likely still be living in monarchical England.

The thing about a lot of monarchical powers in the UK is that the monarch gets to keep them, provided of course that they only ever use them as prescribed by the government.

Iberian colonialism, tied to absolutist Spain/Portugal and the Inquisition's legacy, leaned toward hierarchical, corporatist, Catholic monarchical structures.

Pretending the argument is that one must be a monarchist, just because someone pointed out its monarchical roots, is to mischaracterize the argument so you can deride it without actually addressing its substance.

Indeed, I've found the infiltration of monarchical type behaviour to be surprisingly prevalent in the modern US oligarchical elite structure.

The syntax of the Australian Constitution sits firmly within British conventions of monarchical behaviour, buttressed by the Acts of Westminster and the Australia Acts.

Its political system was characterized by strict checks upon monarchical power.

Especially since "dictatorship" as it's used excludes monarchical systems, in some cases fairly absolute, but that include formally passing on the reign to one's heirs, I'm quite uncertain how useful it is to observe systems like open source projects where the stakes are so very low compared to governing a polity.

"Representative democracy" and "republic" have often been used as synonyms to indicate the absence of monarchical or divine intervention in the choice of leaders, not to exclude direct intervention by the people, which is something only Americans say it does not belong in a republic, for whatever reason.