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Professionals replaced elected officials in some positions.
A representative democracy
The name of the form of government in which voters elect officials to run the state is representative democracy.
professionals replaced elected officials in some positions
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A government run by elected representatives is called a republican form of government.
A "democracy" is run by elected leaders.
An "oligarchy" is a system of government by groups or officials. It is a government that is run be several people as a group. It is distinguished from a "monarch", which is a government run by one person.A system of government run by groups or officials is bureaucratic.A bureaucracy is a system of government by groups of officials. An autocracy is a system of government where one person rules with total power.
More accurately, he ruled in a Republic where government officials are partly selected by the people and partly selected by those elected by the people. Having been chosen by election, the elected officials then set the laws and run the government as representatives of the people rather than the governed people voting on everything.
state government officials
The Iranian government is and example of such a Theocracy.
A republic is a government in which voters hold sovereign power. Elected representatives are responsible to the people that hold sovereign power and elect officials to run the day-to-day affairs of government.