How Government Works
Elections
The mechanism behind "the people decide" is a lot more varied, worldwide, than most people who only know their own country's system realize.
Branches of Government
A system deliberately designed so that no single branch of government can get everything it wants.
Federalism vs. Unitary Systems
A basic structural choice that determines whether a country's regional governments hold real, protected power of their own — or simply borrow whatever authority the central government chooses to lend them.
How Laws Get Made
A process with so many checkpoints that most bills introduced in Congress never make it anywhere close to a president's desk.