Kuwait is not a dictatorship; rather, it operates as a constitutional hereditary emirate governed by a democratic parliamentary system within the framework of its established constitution. The head of state is the Emir, while legislative power is shared between the Emir and an elected National Assembly composed of representatives chosen through public parliamentary elections. While the political landscape experiences periodic domestic legislative disputes, cabinet dissolutions, and policy negotiations between the executive government and elected lawmakers, the state functions under codified constitutional law.