Governments are 'ideological structures', and ideological structures are 'abstract'.

There is no simple description of the different types of government; nevertheless, some distinctions have to be made. Most governmental ideologies are described as 'Top-Down' phenomena. In other words, the government is at the Top and the People are at the Bottom. All governments eventually assume a Top/down relation between the Top, or the 'place' of political power, and the Bottom, the 'place' for the people. Of course, 'political power' means 'power' attributed to the Top of government for the purpose of 'governing'. But, we have to consider where that 'Power' comes from; or, how is it acquired?, or, 'who says the Top has power, and the Bottom does not'? Of course, in the antiquated, Divine Right of Kings, we know where the 'purported source' of the power comes from; in the Autocratic form, some Individual merely 'takes over' the Top; in the Oligarchic form, 'several individuals' take over the Top; in the 'Plutocratic form', the wealthy, take over the Top. The manner by which the Top is 'assumed' in these forms, at this time, is not being considered. The point is that these forms of government become 'abstract governments', i.e. 'linguistic forms', and assume the real Top/Down relation. The Top becomes the source of 'power' and the source of the 'ideology'. The Bottom is the Many, or all the People. Governments can be 'more' or 'less' successful, depending on how the 'People', at the Bottom, are 'treated'. All Autocracies 'don't have' to be autocratic 'all the time'. Nevertheless, if an Autocratic government is 'actually' autocratic, the 'relation', in the circumstances, will be obvious. But, back to the point. In a Democracy, the Top also has power, and it also has an 'ideology', and it's also 'abstract'. However, the 'power' at the Top emanates from the People at the Bottom. In other forms, the power emanates from the Top and the Bottom has no power or say-so. In Democracy, the People are also without 'power' at the Bottom, because power can only exist at the Top of government, and that's the only way governments are 'organized'. But, the Bottom has 'strength in Numbers' and that's why the First Amendment was the 'very first' Amendment. In democracy, although the ideology is also abstract, the source of power emanates from the Bottom, and hence, the Bottom is never without remedy; even the abstract 'ideology' can be said to 'arise' from the Bottom. Keep in mind, that all 'ideological structures' are only 'linguistic relations' from an 'abstract formulation' to a 'concrete situation'. The worse types of governments are the Plutocratic and Oligarchic, because they have 'substituted', 'money and power', in place of, the democratic values of Freedom and Equality.