AP Comparative Government &
Politics Exam Review Exam Q’s and
A’s
Power - -ability to direct the behavior of others through coercion, persuasion
or leadership
-Authority - -the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce
obedience.
-Sovereignty - -Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of
its internal affairs by other states.
-Politics - -Method of maintaining, managing, and gaining control of
government (who gets what, when, and how)
-Nation - -a group of people who identify themselves as belonging together
because of cultural, geographic or linguistic ties
-State - -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 - -a territorial unit controlled by a single state and governed
by a single government
-Regime - -a pattern of organization for a government often described in a
constitution or supreme law
-Rule of law - -governance system that operations predictably under a little
known and relative transparent set of procedural laws
-government - -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 - -the chief public representative of a country, such as a
president or monarch
-head of government - -office and the person occupying the office charged
with leading the operation of a government
-Civil society - -all organizations which provide avenues of public
participation in society
, -State capacity - -ability of the government to implement its policies
-Legitimacy - -the belief that a regime is a proper one and that the
government has a right to exercise authority
-Ways to earn legitimacy - -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 - -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 - -collection o history, values, beliefs, assumptions,
attitudes, traditions, symbols that define and influence political behavior
within a nation-state
-Ideology - -a set of basic beliefs about political, economic, social and
cultural affairs that advocates believe is clearly defined
-Pragmatism - -the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring
practicality and literal truth (Deng Xiaoping)
-Marxism - -Emerged as the most famous socialist belief system during the
19th century. Saw all of history as the story of class struggle.
-socialism - -A system in which society, usually in the form of the
government, plays a major role in the means of production.
-supply side economics - -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.
-Executive branch in Britain - -PM belongs to lower house of legislature,
cabinet members picked by PM, are heads of government ministries that
carry out policies
-Russian Executive branch - -Shared by popularly elected president,
appointed premier (Prime Minister), cabinet members are heads of gov't
ministries, policy made by legislature & the president
-China Executive branch - -Premier, named by president & national
legislature, is head of gov't, cabinet ministers direct ministries to implement
Politics Exam Review Exam Q’s and
A’s
Power - -ability to direct the behavior of others through coercion, persuasion
or leadership
-Authority - -the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce
obedience.
-Sovereignty - -Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of
its internal affairs by other states.
-Politics - -Method of maintaining, managing, and gaining control of
government (who gets what, when, and how)
-Nation - -a group of people who identify themselves as belonging together
because of cultural, geographic or linguistic ties
-State - -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 - -a territorial unit controlled by a single state and governed
by a single government
-Regime - -a pattern of organization for a government often described in a
constitution or supreme law
-Rule of law - -governance system that operations predictably under a little
known and relative transparent set of procedural laws
-government - -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 - -the chief public representative of a country, such as a
president or monarch
-head of government - -office and the person occupying the office charged
with leading the operation of a government
-Civil society - -all organizations which provide avenues of public
participation in society
, -State capacity - -ability of the government to implement its policies
-Legitimacy - -the belief that a regime is a proper one and that the
government has a right to exercise authority
-Ways to earn legitimacy - -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 - -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 - -collection o history, values, beliefs, assumptions,
attitudes, traditions, symbols that define and influence political behavior
within a nation-state
-Ideology - -a set of basic beliefs about political, economic, social and
cultural affairs that advocates believe is clearly defined
-Pragmatism - -the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring
practicality and literal truth (Deng Xiaoping)
-Marxism - -Emerged as the most famous socialist belief system during the
19th century. Saw all of history as the story of class struggle.
-socialism - -A system in which society, usually in the form of the
government, plays a major role in the means of production.
-supply side economics - -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.
-Executive branch in Britain - -PM belongs to lower house of legislature,
cabinet members picked by PM, are heads of government ministries that
carry out policies
-Russian Executive branch - -Shared by popularly elected president,
appointed premier (Prime Minister), cabinet members are heads of gov't
ministries, policy made by legislature & the president
-China Executive branch - -Premier, named by president & national
legislature, is head of gov't, cabinet ministers direct ministries to implement
