Is the political regime the destiny of the people or their conscious choice?

The political regime is a system of state structure, methods that the authorities use to maintain order, ways of responding to the public mood. What contributes to its preservation for many decades, and what can cause discontent of the population of the country and cause a change in the ruling power?
Speaking about the political regime, I want to note a slight nuance. Many (as it turned out, until a certain time and the author too) often confuse or confuse two concepts: "form of government" and "political regime." We dilute them a little. The form of government is a coherent system. It is she who characterizes the interaction of the branches of power, the order of government formation and the definition of the head of state. The political regime is more a character, means and methods on the basis of which there is interaction between authorities, and also between the power and the population. For example, the political regime of Japan is democratic, and the form of government is a constitutional monarchy.

Once we talked about the differences in these concepts, it's logical to focus on their typology. Political science identifies democratic and terrorist (authoritarian and totalitarian) types of regimes. As for the forms of government, there are many more:

• State: federal (Australia), Islamic (Afghanistan), multinational (Bolivia), unitary (Sri Lanka).
• The Republic, including federal (Austria), unitary (Bangladesh), Islamic (Iran). The republican form of government is inherent in most modern states, including Russia.
• Monarchy - constitutional (Japan), absolute theocratic (Vatican), absolute (Brunei), parliamentary (Spain). The monarchy, as such, is Oman.
• The Parliamentary Principality (Andorra).

As you can see, the forms of government are more diverse. Moreover, some of them exist only in one state. An example is the Vatican, Andorra, Iran, Bolivia, Sri Lanka, Spain, Afghanistan.

Features of political regimes according to Aristotle

Studying the materials for this article, I was surprised by the approach to the political regimes that were proposed by Aristotle. It seemed to me that in his work "Politics" the essence of the state system was set out in the most accessible and correct interpretation. So, Aristotle singled out 6 major political regimes. Of these, three were the right forms, and three were their perverted variations.

• The correct political regime is (in the opinion of the great philosopher) monarchy, aristocracy and political science. Their correctness lies in the fact that the actions of the government are aimed at the benefit of citizens.
• A distorted political regime is a distortion of the principles of "correctness". They include tyranny, oligarchy and democracy. In these management systems, the actions of the authorities are aimed at "good for themselves".

An interesting fact is that Cicero, when translating this treatise, as some sources say, substituted the concept of "polity" with the term "republic", which radically influenced the possibility of a correct perception of the text. (The Republic in those days was one of the names of the Roman Empire.)

Legitimacy of regimes

Surely, many are interested in the question of why some regimes, which should cause fierce rejection, remain unshakable for many centuries? To denote such approval, there is a term such as "legitimacy". It implies that citizens of the state recognize the order and methods used by the authorities, correct and acceptable. At the same time, there are practically no attempts to violate the existing order in the society, there are no attempts to overthrow the authorities and change the system. All actions and demands of the authorities are perceived as natural, necessary and only true. Agree, it is very similar to what political regime in Russia (more precisely, the USSR) existed during the reign of IV Stalin. It is for this reason that North Korea has existed for decades .

What is the reason for such "obedience" on the part of the population? Correctly built ideology. The legitimate political regime is power based on ancient and ancient traditions, religion, political orientation (which can also be considered a kind of religion), as well as principles of rationality.