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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