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[French régime, from Old French, from Latin regimen, from regere, to rule.]
noun
A recurring pattern, as in the seasonal pattern of climates or the yearly fluctuations in the volume of a river or a glacier.
A system of government or administration. The most common use of this promiscuous term in recent years has been in the phrase ‘military regime’. So while any government may be termed a regime, be it monarchical, aristocratic, republican, or tyrannical, the term unavoidably conjures up memories of tanks in the streets in Latin America and Eastern Europe. This is to be regretted, since it has two more technical senses in which it may not easily be replaced. First, when governments come and go with bewildering frequency, as in nineteenth-century Spain or post-1945 Italy, there may still be an absence of fundamental or revolutionary change. In these circumstances it is possible to speak of regime continuity. Alternatively, and more rarely, a change of regime (from constitutional monarchy to tyranny, or from dispersed to centralized government) may be achieved without a change in government, as in the move from parliamentary to personal rule by Charles I of England, or under Margaret Thatcher. Secondly, in international relations the difficulty of accommodating the rise of non-state actors within state-centric realist models of explanation has led to use of the term ‘regime’ to cover norm-bound interactions relating to issues such as the global environment or human rights, in which states, international organizations, transnational corporations, individuals, and worldwide pressure groups like Greenpeace or Amnesty International all take part.
— Charles Jones
This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership.
— George Bruce Cortelyou (1862-1940)
A regime (occasionally spelled "régime", particularly in older texts) is usually one of two things: a political system, or a class of physical conditions.
The more common use in mass media, a regime in the sense of a political system is the set of rules, both formal (for example, a constitution) and informal (common law, cultural or social norms, etc.) that regulate the operation of government and its interactions with the economy and society. For instance, the United States has one of the oldest regimes still active in the world, dating to the ratification of its Constitution in 1789.
The term need not imply anything about the particular government to which it relates, and most political scientists use it as a neutral term.
In the Western world, the everyday use of "regime" is usually used with a negative connotation, usually referring to a government not friendly to interests of Western governments, or a "dictatorship", even if the government is in power through a consistent application of its constitution.
The term "regime" is also used, if the incumbent ruler of the country came to power and established a new government, or any government who changed their countries' systems radically in a relatively recent window of time. Also, chronologically, the U.S. Constitution, as well as most government systems of countries of North and South America and Europe are not called "regimes" in everyday terms (as used by Western media), since when their last constitutions were established do not fall into a recent window of time.
Political scientist Fred Judson defines a regime as the "relationship between the state, society, (the) market, and global insertion".
In scientific discussions, a regime is a class of physical conditions, usually parameterised by some specific measures, where a particular physical phenomenon or boundary condition is significant. Very often a regime corresponds to a limiting condition. The region of measurable parameter space that corresponds to a regime is very often loosely defined. Examples are things like "the superfluid regime", "the steady state regime" or "the femtosecond regime".
Another political use of "regime" concerns international regulatory agencies (see International regime), which lie outside of the control of national governments. These have more power over a greater range than postal or telecommunications agreements, for example, and constrain national governments.
The basic meaning of "regime", a system of control, can be found in terms such as exercise regime or medical regime. Compare regimen.
In geography and hydrography, "regime" refers to the changing conditions of river beds and other features, such as systems of sandbars.
Regime is the name of a band from Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom.
Essentials of Comparative Government, Patrick O'Neil.
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - regime, regeringsform, -ordning, -system
Nederlands (Dutch)
regime, een bepaald bewind (negatief), regeringsstelsel, voorschriften van instelling, dieet/kuur, natuurlijk verloop/ systeem
Français (French)
n. - (Pol) régime, (Méd) régime (sout)
Deutsch (German)
n. - Regime, System, Methode
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - καθεστώς, πολίτευμα, (ιατρ.) αγωγή, δίαιτα
Português (Portuguese)
n. - regime (m), forma de governo (f)
Español (Spanish)
n. - régimen, sistema de gobierno
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - regim, system
中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
政体, 政权制度, 政权
中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 政體, 政權制度, 政權
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 政治体制, 政体, 政権, 制度
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) نظام سياسي, حميه
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - משטר, שלטון, משטר בריאות
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