(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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