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AP Comparative Government & Politics Exam Review
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AP Comparative Government & PoliticsExam Review
Power - ANS-ability to direct the behavior of others through coercion, persuasion or
leadership
Authority - ANS-the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce
obedience.
Sovereignty - ANS-Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal
affairs by other states.
Politics - ANS-Method of maintaining, managing, and gaining control of government
(who gets what, when, and how)
Nation - ANS-a group of people who identify themselves as belonging together because
of cultural, geographic or linguistic ties
State - ANS-people & groups within a nation-state that have power to effect change at
some level of society through direct action or political participation
Nation-state - ANS-a territorial unit controlled by a single state and governed by a single
government
Regime - ANS-a pattern of organization for a government often described in a
constitution or supreme law
Rule of law - ANS-governance system that operations predictably under a little known
and relative transparent set of procedural laws
government - ANS-part of the state with legitimate public authority; the group of
people/organizations that hold political authority in a state at any time
Head of state - ANS-the chief public representative of a country, such as a president or
monarch
head of government - ANS-office and the person occupying the office charged with
leading the operation of a government
, Civil society - ANS-all organizations which provide avenues of public participation in
society
State capacity - ANS-ability of the government to implement its policies
Legitimacy - ANS-the belief that a regime is a proper one and that the government has
a right to exercise authority
Ways to earn legitimacy - ANS-representative government, rule of law, history of stable
political system, protection of individual liberty, charismatic leadership, social welfare
system available to all, government responsive of public opinion, widely shared sense of
national identity
Permeability of national borders - ANS-ability of a substance to allow another substance
to pass through it (jobs, refugees, pollution, petroleum, wars, technology, tourists,
facebook, heroin, organized crime, political ideas such as democratization, social
media, Hollywood films, etc.)
Political culture - ANS-collection o history, values, beliefs, assumptions, attitudes,
traditions, symbols that define and influence political behavior within a nation-state
Ideology - ANS-a set of basic beliefs about political, economic, social and cultural affairs
that advocates believe is clearly defined
Pragmatism - ANS-the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality
and literal truth (Deng Xiaoping)
Marxism - ANS-Emerged as the most famous socialist belief system during the 19th
century. Saw all of history as the story of class struggle.
socialism - ANS-A system in which society, usually in the form of the government, plays
a major role in the means of production.
supply side economics - ANS-An economic philosophy that holds the sharply cutting
taxes will increase the incentive people have to work, save, and invest. Greater
investments will lead to more jobs, a more productive economy, and more tax revenues
for the government.
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