AP COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT MIDTERM 2
FULL REVISION NOTES WITH REGIMES,
DEMOCRACY, AND AUTHORITARIAN SYSTEMS
◉ The collapse of communism is important for comparative politics
because
Answer: scholars did not anticipate it, calling their work to date into
question
◉ Recent discussions of the future of comparative politics and
political science have called for
Answer: a greater connection to political ideas and questions of
policy
◉ an institution can be defined as any
Answer: organization or pattern of activity that is self-perpetuating
and valued for its own sake
◉ Institutions are important, in part, because they
Answer: command authority and can influence behavior
,◉ Which of the following is NOT an example of an institution found
in North America and Europe?
the army; baseball, hockey, or soccer; restaurants; taxation
Answer: restaurants
◉ The substance of politics is inevitable bound up in the struggle
between
Answer: individual freedom and collective equality
◉ A greater focus on individual freedom is associated with:
Answer: a smaller state
◉ A greater focus on collective equality is associated with
Answer: a larger state
◉ Political scientists, based on the work of Max Weber, define the
state as:
Answer: an organization that maintains a monopoly of violence over
a territory
◉ Sovereignty is defined as the ability of
Answer: states to carry out actions of policies independent of
outside actors of internal rivals
, ◉ The state is often compared in many ways to a:
Answer: protection racket
◉ Regimes are defined as
Answer: the basic rules and norms of politics
◉ The army and the police are both part of a country's
Answer: sovereignty
◉ Regimes are comprised of both
Answer: written and unwritten elements
◉ Government can be defined as
Answer: the leadership in charge of running the state
◉ The shorthand term for the combination of regime, state, and
government is
Answer: country
◉ Which of the following is seen as weakly institutionalized: states,
regimes, governments, countries, religions
FULL REVISION NOTES WITH REGIMES,
DEMOCRACY, AND AUTHORITARIAN SYSTEMS
◉ The collapse of communism is important for comparative politics
because
Answer: scholars did not anticipate it, calling their work to date into
question
◉ Recent discussions of the future of comparative politics and
political science have called for
Answer: a greater connection to political ideas and questions of
policy
◉ an institution can be defined as any
Answer: organization or pattern of activity that is self-perpetuating
and valued for its own sake
◉ Institutions are important, in part, because they
Answer: command authority and can influence behavior
,◉ Which of the following is NOT an example of an institution found
in North America and Europe?
the army; baseball, hockey, or soccer; restaurants; taxation
Answer: restaurants
◉ The substance of politics is inevitable bound up in the struggle
between
Answer: individual freedom and collective equality
◉ A greater focus on individual freedom is associated with:
Answer: a smaller state
◉ A greater focus on collective equality is associated with
Answer: a larger state
◉ Political scientists, based on the work of Max Weber, define the
state as:
Answer: an organization that maintains a monopoly of violence over
a territory
◉ Sovereignty is defined as the ability of
Answer: states to carry out actions of policies independent of
outside actors of internal rivals
, ◉ The state is often compared in many ways to a:
Answer: protection racket
◉ Regimes are defined as
Answer: the basic rules and norms of politics
◉ The army and the police are both part of a country's
Answer: sovereignty
◉ Regimes are comprised of both
Answer: written and unwritten elements
◉ Government can be defined as
Answer: the leadership in charge of running the state
◉ The shorthand term for the combination of regime, state, and
government is
Answer: country
◉ Which of the following is seen as weakly institutionalized: states,
regimes, governments, countries, religions
