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)
Unitary governments are the most common.
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.
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Unitary governments are the most common.
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.