A confederacy or federation is a group of independent powers united in common interest. This is how the United States began, as a confederacy of sovereign states. A unitary government is a single government that has total control over a single country, with smaller government branches merely being an extention of the central government. One may argue that the United States Federal Government of today has more in common with a unitary government than it's name would imply.
unitary is where all powers are held by a single central agency. Federal has the powers of the government divided by a written constitution between central government and regional.
relationship between the centre and states
Great Britain and France have unitary governments; Germany has a federal government.
Unitary governments are the most common.
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unitary government: all powers is given to a central government (there is only one level of government).federal system government divides powers of government between national and state governments (power is split between multiple levels of government).confederacy - loose union of independent states (no central government)
The similarities between unitary and federal states could be that both types of governments could be democracies. A unitary state could be democratic when the people elect the government officials, as is the case in a federal state.
Unitary governments are the most common.
Unitary governments are the most common.
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It is called a Federal government as opposed to a Unitary government.
In a unitary government, all powers are concentrated in one central authority while in a federal government powers are distributed between the central and state governments. Both of them enjoy coordinate powers.