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BG PT
Presidential Parliamentary Not included
Presidential Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Malawi, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Philippines, Paraguay, El Salvador, Switzerland, Uganda, Uruguay, United States of America, Venezuela   Benin, Burundi, Republic of Congo, Cuba, Indonesia, Kenya, Liberia, Maldives, Micronesia, Nigeria, Palau, Panama, Sierra Leone, Suriname
Semi-presidential Sri Lanka Austria, Bulgaria, Comoros, Finland, France, Ireland, Iceland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Slovak Republic, Taiwan, Ukraine Armenia, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Croatia, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Madagascar, Macedonia, Mali, Mongolia, Mauritania, Niger, Serbia, Sao Tome and Principe, Slovenia, South Korea, Timor-Leste
Parliamentary   Australia, Belgium, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Barbados, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Fiji, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Mauritius, Netherlands, Norway, Nepal, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, United Kingdom Andorra, Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Bhutan, Czechoslovakia, Dominica, Grenada, Kiribati, St. Kitts and Nevis, Lao PDR, Lebanon, St. Lucia, Liechtenstein, Marshall Islands, Moldova, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sudan, Solomon Islands, San Marino, Somalia, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
Not included The Gambia, Belarus, Namibia, Russia, Zambia, Zimbabwe Botswana, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa  

  1. Classifications of countries by form of government between the two data sets