(Name of Country) Review Sheet
Mr. Benson’s
AP US & COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT
REVIEW – 2013
AP US GOVERNMENT EXAM – MAY 14TH (MORNING)
60 Multiple Choice questions (45 minutes)
- break-
4 Free Response (100 minutes)
AP COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT EXAM MAY 14TH (AFTERNOON)
55 Multiple Choice Questions (45 minutes)
- break –
Free Response (100 minutes)
5 short answer, 1 Conceptual Free Response, 2 Country based Free Response
COMPARATIVE REVIEW
1) COUNTRY FACT SHEET DUE APRIL 15TH
2) OTHER PARTS DUE APRIL 25th
US REVIEW
1) ESSAY OUTLINES DUE APRIL 25TH
2) SEE ME TO TAKE ONE PRACTICE TEST & GO OVER IT DUE APRIL 29TH
COMPARATIVE REVIEW
1. 90 CONCEPT LIST
2. COUNTRY REVIEW SHEET ON Website
Name of Country ___________
Review Sheet
|Federal/Unitary |# of subunits |Description of arrangement (for example |
| | |devolution etc) |
|Presidential, Parliamentary or Mixed |Name of Head of State (for example, |Name of Head of Government |
| |President) | |
|Head of State/Head of Government |Powers of Head of state, length of term |Powers of Head of Government |
| |Election process of Head of state, length |Election process of Head of Government |
| |of term | |
|Name of Legislative Branch |Number of seats in Legislative Branch, |Describe elections of legislative branch |
|(identify both houses if applicable) |length of term, describe power of | |
| |legislative branch (rubber stamp, powerful)| |
|Name of Judicial Branch |How are judges selected |Describe type of power |
|Bureaucracy/Cabinet |Describe bureaucracy |Describe cabinet |
|Political Recruitment |How are elites recruited? | |
|Other important institutions (complete only| | |
|if applicable to your country) | | |
|Media |Describe type of “feedback” citizens |How independent is the media? |
| |receive | |
|Legitimacy |Describe level of legitimacy |Identify sources of legitimacy |
|Features of Constitution |When was it written |Identify 3 unique features |
|Historical Evolution of Political |(Identify three key events and briefly | |
|Traditions |explain how the events shaped current | |
| |government. (revolutions, for example) | |
|Key Political Leaders and their policies |Identify and describe 3 | |
|Ethnic Cleavages |(identify the major ethnic cleavages in the|(describe the results of these cleavages in|
| |country) |political conflict and government response,|
| | |include a description of women) |
|Political Parties (Id/describe platforms of| | |
|three) | | |
|Role of Political Elites |(identify elites (people with political | |
| |power) and describe their role) | |
|Citizens |Describe attitudes towards government |Describe types of political participation |
|Interest Group System (identify pluralist |Identify key interest groups |Describe their power and activities |
|or corporatist) | | |
|Economic System |Identify state owned industries, foreign |Describe major resources and state services|
|(identify capitalist, socialist; Identify |owned industries, nature of privatization |such as oil, health care, education |
|major economic policies government has | | |
|adopted) | | |
|First World/Third World |Describe level of economic development |Identify 5 socioeconomic indicators that |
| | |places the country in this category |
|Supranational Organizations |Identify supranational organizations that |Discuss impact of supranational |
| |country is a part of |organizations on sovereignty and on |
| | |development |
|Public Policy |Identify and describe three recent policies|Identify and describe most pressing current|
| | |problems |
|Election Watch – | | |
|Identify the most recent elections | | |
|(national and local) and describe the | | |
|results – see blackboard | | |
|Current Events | | |
|Each student in the group should choose one| | |
|at least one current event article and | | |
|describe them-see blackboard. For your | | |
|chosen article, explain the | | |
|relevance/significance to comparative | | |
|politics. | | |
Name _________
AP Comparative Government
Key Terms & Concept
Directions (1) Define each key concept. (2) Give one country specific example for each concept. Note: some of these concepts are not in your textbook! For definitions of these please refer to your classroom notes.
1. authoritarian rule
2. bonyads
3. bureaucracy
4. camarilla
5. catch all party
6. cleavages (ethnic)
7. civil service
8. civil society
9. (a) code law
(b) common law
10. corporatism
11. charismatic authority
12. coup d’etat
13. command economy
14. communism
15. comparative method (country example not required – define and give a method)
16. constitution
17. (a) corporatism -
(b) pluralism -
18. (a) correlation –
(b) causation -
19. democracy
20. democratic deficit
21. democratization
22. development
23. devolution
24. efficacy
25. electoral system
26. elite recruitment
27. failed state
28. federalism
29. first past the post
30. fragmentation
31. fusion of power
32. separation of power
33. GDP
34. gini index
35. glasnost
36. globalization
37. government
38. (a) head of government
(b)head of state
39. illiberal democracy
40. industrialized democracy
41. iron triangle
42. judicial review
43. legitimacy
44. Marxism
45. mass line
46. military rule
47. micro credit
48. minimum winning threshold
49. mixed presidential parliamentary system
50. modernization
51. Multinational corporation (MNC) –
52. (a) multiparty system -
(b) two party system-
(c) one party system –
(d) one party dominant system-
53. nation
54. newly industrializing countries
55. nomenklatura
56. non governmental organization (NGO)
57. oligarchy
58. parastatls
59. parliamentary system
60. patron client politics
61. perestroika
62. pluralism
63. plurality
64. politburo
65. political culture
66. political participation
67. political socialization
68. postmaterialism
69. presidential system
70. proportional representation
71. privatization
72. referendum
73. regime
74. rentier state
75. revolution
76. rule of law
77. shock therapy
78. single member districts
79. sovereignty
80. state
81. structural adjustment/import substitution
82. supranational organization
83. theocracy
84. third world
85. totalitarian
86. transparency
87. two party system
88. two ballot system
89. unitary state
90. vote of confidence
91. welfare state
92. ____________
93. _____________
94. ____________
95. ____________
96. ___________
97. ___________
98. ___________
99. ____________
100. ____________
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