| abstract | - A regime is a crew within a crime family that is run by a caporegime. There are multiple regimes in a family, with each regime operating in their own territory but ultimately answering to their Dons. In times of conflict between families it would be the caporegimes and their regimes that the Don would call upon to carry out the fighting and go to the mattresses.
- A regime is a subset of norms that are shared expectations about appropriate behavior.
- Regime names or describes a set of political institutions. Thus a regime may be authoritarian (military, fascist or communist) or democratic. Regime is regularly used propagandistically to cue English language news audiences to disapprove of a particular foreign government. For example, hack reporters have systematically described the government of Syria as a regime but did not use the term to describe or name the governments of other Middle Eastern tyrannies.
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