Characteristics of the government system within the imperialist countries, presence or absence of democracy.

Imperialism as we know was encouraged by the desire of this countries to get power. Almost all of them were capitalists, and wanted also economic growth. These countries were empires and wanted to extract natural resources for their own goods. So when they colonized other countries, they had all the power above people, and treated them as slaves in some occasions. The monopoly capitalism was also present in that period of time. There was a clear absence of democracy, because empires imposed authority and had all the power, leaving people without any chance of deciding how they wanted their government to be.

The presence of democracy is weird because the imperialist country had the power, but let the colony believe that in a way they had their own government and that the imperialist country only somehow had all the economy and the natural resources. (Jobson, 2014)