Mr. Benson’s
AP US & COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT
REVIEW – 2013
AP US GOVERNMENT EXAM – MAY 14TH (MORNING)
60 Multiple Choice questions (45 minutes)
- break4 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
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Name of Country ___________
Review Sheet
Federal/Unitary
# of subunits
Presidential,
Parliamentary or Mixed
Head of State/Head of
Government
Name of Judicial Branch
Name of Head of State (for
example, President)
Powers of Head of state,
length of term
Election process of Head of
state, length of term
Number of seats in
Legislative Branch, length
of term, describe power of
legislative branch (rubber
stamp, powerful)
How are judges selected
Bureaucracy/Cabinet
Describe bureaucracy
Political Recruitment
Other important
institutions (complete only
if applicable to your
country)
Media
How are elites recruited?
Name of Legislative
Branch
(identify both houses if
applicable)
Legitimacy
Features of Constitution
Historical Evolution of
Political Traditions
Key Political Leaders and
their policies
Ethnic Cleavages
Description of arrangement
(for example devolution
etc)
Name of Head of
Government
Powers of Head of
Government
Election process of Head of
Government
Describe elections of
legislative branch
Describe type of power
Describe cabinet
Describe type of “feedback” How independent is the
citizens receive
media?
Describe level of legitimacy Identify sources of
legitimacy
When was it written
Identify 3 unique features
(Identify three key events
and briefly explain how the
events shaped current
government. (revolutions,
for example)
Identify and describe 3
(identify the major ethnic
cleavages in the country)
(describe the results of these
cleavages in political
conflict and government
response, include a
description of women)
Political Parties
(Id/describe platforms of
three)
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Role of Political Elites
Citizens
Interest Group System
(identify pluralist or
corporatist)
Economic System
(identify capitalist, socialist;
Identify major economic
policies government has
adopted)
First World/Third World
Supranational
Organizations
Public Policy
(identify elites (people with
political power) and
describe their role)
Describe attitudes towards
government
Identify key interest groups
Identify state owned
industries, foreign owned
industries, nature of
privatization
Describe types of political
participation
Describe their power and
activities
Describe major resources
and state services such as
oil, health care, education
Describe level of economic
development
Identify 5 socioeconomic
indicators that places the
country in this category
Identify supranational
Discuss impact of
organizations that country is supranational organizations
a part of
on sovereignty and on
development
Identify and describe three
Identify and describe most
recent policies
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.
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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
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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
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50. modernization
51. Multinational corporation (MNC) –
52. (a) multiparty system (b) two party system(c) one party system –
(d) one party dominant system53. 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
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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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