AP Comparative Government & Politics Summer Assignment
Lisa Silverman
silverman@fultonschools.org
Spring Semester 2013
**AP Comparative Government & Politics (COGOPO) will ONLY be offered in the spring. Please make sure that you are aware of ALL due dates
with regards to your summer assignment. Enjoy your break!
PART I: The Goals of COGOPO
Please email me at Silverman@fultonschools.org by Sunday, July 1st with the following information:
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Why are you taking AP Comparative Government & Politics? What do you hope to learn by taking this course?
Briefly discuss your current understanding of global politics.
What are your goals for the coming school year?
What else should I know about you so that I have insight into you as a student & as an individual before classes start?
PART II: The Terminology of COGOPO
Due Date: Monday, January 7, 2013 (first day of class)
Directions: Using the websites that are listed below, please define each of the following terms. Each of these terms are central to AP
Comparative Government & Politics and will be referenced frequently throughout the course. Your definitions MUST be hand-written and in
pen. Please be neat! I recommend using 3x5 note cards.
Helpful Websites for Political Science Terms
http://polisci.nelson.com/glossary.html
http://www.uiowa.edu/policult/politick2000/polisci.nelson.com/glossary.html
http://www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss/political_science
http://www2.cruzio.com/~zdino/psychology/political.science.glossary.htm#i
http://www.socialsciencedictionary.com/
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Bicameral
Bureaucracy
Civil Society
Cleavage
Confederation
Corporatism
Democratization
Devolution
Executive
Federalism
Head of Government
Head of State
Illiberal Democracy
Interest Groups
Judicial Review
Judiciary
Legislature
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Legitimacy
Liberal Democracy
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Nation
Nationalization
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Non-Governmental Organization
Parliamentary System
Patron-Client System
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Political Culture
Political Efficacy
Political Elites
Political Ideology
Political Recruitment
Political Socialization
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Presidential System
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Rule of Law
Separation of Powers
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Sovereignty
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State Corporatism
Technocrats
Theocracy
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PART III: The People of COGOPO
Due Date: Monday, January 7, 2013 (first day of class)
Directions: Create a set of note cards that detail the significant people listed below. Your note cards MUST be handwritten and in pen.
Please be neat! I recommend using 3x5 note cards. The TOP CARD should list your name in the upper left-hand corner and the name of the
person in the center. Each of the note cards should be NUMBERED (1-75) and COLOR-CODED. The cards should be formatted as follows:
FRONT OF CARD
# of card (1-75)
Person’s full name
BACK OF CARD
Years alive (birth date – death date)
Country: should indicate which of the AP6 countries the person is associated with
Role: should detail the major role of the person, as well as why they are/were important
Source: source information; list the website you consulted (***avoid Wikipedia)
COLOR-CODING REFERENCE
Blue – Great Britain
Green – Iran
Yellow – Russia
Red – China
Purple – Nigeria
Orange – Mexico
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Abacha, Sani
Abubakar, Abdulsalami
Abubakar, Atiku
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
Andropov, Yuri
Babangida, Ibrahim
Balewa, Tafawa
Baroness Royall
Bercow, John
Blair, Tony
Brezhnev, Leonid
Brown, Gordon
Buhari, Muhammadu
Calderon, Felipe
Cameron, David
Cárdenas, Cuauhtémoc
Cárdenas, Lazaro
Catherine the Great
Chernenko, Konstantin
Chiang Kai-Shek
Clegg, Nick
Deng Xiaoping
Diaz, Porfirio
Elizabeth II
Fox, Vicente
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Gaidar, Yegor
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Henry Pu-Yi
Hu Jintao
Hu Yaobang
Hua Guofeng
Jannati, Ahmad
Jiang Zemin
Jonathan, Goodluck
Juarez, Benito
Khamenei, Ali
Khatami, Mohammad
Khodorkovsky, Mikhail
Khomeini, Ruhollah
Khrushchev, Nikita
Larajani, Ali
Larajani, Sadeq
Lenin, Vladimir
Li Peng
Lord Strathclyde
Major, John
Mao Zedong
Medvedev, Dmitry
Mosaddeq, Dr. Mohammad
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Obasanjo, Olusegun
Obrador, Andres Manuel Lopez
Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Shah
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Politskovskaya, Anna
Putin, Vladimir
Rafsanjani, Ali Akbar Hashimi
Sarowiwa, Ken
Stalin, Josef
Subcomandante Marcos
Sun Yat-Sen
Trotsky, Leon
Villa, Pancho
Wen Jaibao
Xi Jinping
Yar’Adua, Umaru
Yeltsin, Boris
Zapata, Emilio
Zedillo, Ernesto
Zhao Ziyang
Zhirinovsky, Vladimir
Zhou Enlai
Zhu Rongji
Zyuganov, Gennady