Government is the means by which state policy is enforced, as well as the mechanism for determining the policy of the

state.
A form of government, or form of state governance, refers to the set of political institutions by which a government of a state is organized (synonyms include
regime type and system of government).
Governments consist of two broad interplaying elements that generally determine how a government is coded: the power source and the power structure.
Power source refers to the individuals and institutions that exercise governing authority over a state and the means by which they obtain their power, while power
structure refers to the system by which they are organized.
Democracy
The essential or real meaning of democracy derives from two Greek words demos and kratos. Demos means the common people and kratos means rule. Thus,
democracy essentially means the rule of the common people.
Democratic practices are ways citizens can work togethereven when they disagreeto address shared problems.
Democratic practices are variations on the things that happen every day in communities. In order for these routine activities to become public, citizens have to be
involved.
1) free election - Elections are a central feature of democracy. An election is considered 'free' when you can decide whether or not to vote and vote freely for the
candidate or party of your choice without fear or intimidation. A 'free' election is also one where you are confident that who you vote for remains your secret.
2) citizen participation - Citizen participation is a process which provides private individuals an opportunity to influence public decisions and has long been a
component of the democratic decision-making process. The roots of citizen participation can be traced to ancient Greece and Colonial New England.
3) majority rule, minority rights - Democracy therefore requires minority rights equally as it does majority rule. Indeed, as democracy is conceived today,
the minority's rights must be protected no matter how singular or alienated that minority is from the majority society; otherwise, the majority's rights lose
their meaning
4) constitutional government

A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social
interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for analyzing the structure of whole social entities as well as a variety of
theories explaining the patterns observed in these structures.[1] The study of these structures uses social network analysis to identify local and global patterns,
locate influential entities, and examine network dynamics.
Social networks and the analysis of them is an inherently interdisciplinary academic field which emerged from social psychology, sociology, statistics, and graph
theory. Georg Simmel authored early structural theories in sociology emphasizing the dynamics of triads and "web of group affiliations".[2] Jacob Moreno is credited
with developing the first sociograms in the 1930s to study interpersonal relationships. These approaches were mathematically formalized in the 1950s and theories
and methods of social networks became pervasive in the social and behavioral sciences by the 1980s.[1][3] Social network analysis is now one of the major
paradigms in contemporary sociology, and is also employed in a number of other social and formal sciences. Together with other complex networks, it forms part
of the nascent field of network science.[4][5]