AP Comparative Gov
AP Comparative Gov. Unit I Introduction
Textbook: Comparative Politics Today - Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6
Study Guide Terms and Questions
1. adjudication
2. interest aggregation
3. interest articulation
4. higher civil service
5. causation
6. correlation
7. conflictual political culture
8. consensual political culture
9. parochials
10. participants
11. subjects
12. technocrats
13. constitutional regime
14. democratic presidential regime
15. parliamentary regime
16. federal systems
17. unitary systems
18. authoritarian regime
19. authoritarian party systems
20. competitive party systems
21. exclusive governing party
22. inclusive governing party
23. majoritarian party systems
24. patron-client networks
25. pluralist interest group systems
26. democratic corporatist interest group system
27. proportional representation (vs. winner-take-all)
28. command economy
29. competitive system
30. democratic system
31. participant democracy
32. distributive policies
33. G.N.P.
34. normative questions v. empirical questions
35. government
36. regime
37. sovereignty
38. legitimacy
39. political culture
40. political socialization
41. cleavages
42. social movement
43. democratization
44. economic policy shifts
45. globalization
46. fragmentation
Unit I Study Guide Questions
Ch. 1
1. Define politics and political systems.
2. List the functions of governments.
3. What is the value of studying comparative politics?
Ch. 2
4. Identify the key concepts used in comparative politics.
5. Distinguish between: state, nation, nationalism, nation-state and ethnicity
Ch. 3
6. Identify the important features of the political culture.
7. Identify social and economic factors that can affect the political culture.
8. Explain how individuals and groups are politically socialized.
Ch. 4
9. Explain the importance of interest groups to the maintenance of a democratic system.
10. Explain the theory of relative deprivation and its application to interest group theory.
11. List the ways individuals can participate in interest articulation.
Ch. 5
12. What is the role of political parties in interest aggregation?
13. Explain the inherent instability of military regimes.
14. Distinguish between coalition and consensus building and the value of each.
15. Explain the variety and forms that interest aggregation takes in a multiplicity of countries and cultures.
16. What is the role of political parties in recruitment, lawmaking, and policy implementation?
Ch. 6
17. What is the importance of constitutions in the framework of government?
18. Identify the basic differences and problems between majoritarian and consensual political forms of policy making.
19. Explain the difficulties of moving from an authoritarian to a democratic system in the rearrangement and redesign of government institutions.
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