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.