<p>State corporatism is where the state determines which interest groups are brought in, whereas neocorporatism is where interest groups take the lead and dominate the state (also called societal corporatism)</p>
<p>Thanks for all the tips! My teacher doesn’t teach us anything, so I’ve had to self study a lot of this material</p>
<p>Do you guys know how long the Multiple Choice portion is going to be?</p>
<p>How important would you say memorizing court cases are? I basically remember all the big ones (Marbury v. Madison, Schenk v. US, Roe v. Wade) but how specific do you think we should go?</p>
<p>Yodelo, the multiple choice is 55 questions total.</p>
<p>Merryhappy, this is AP Comparative Gov, not American Gov. In terms of court cases for American Gov, you should know the following ones.</p>
<p>Marbury v. Madison (judicial review)
Barron v. Baltimore (dual citizenship)
McCulloch v. Maryland (federal supremacy)
Gibbons v. Ogden (interstate commerce)
Dred Scott v. Sanford (slavery open to all states)
Slaughterhouse Cases (14th Amendment not applied)
Plessy v. Ferguson (separate but equal)
Schenk v. US (clear/present danger test)
Gitlow v. NY (selective incorporation (SL) of 1st Amendment)
Near v. Minnesota (SL 2nd Amendment; no prior restraint)
Brown v. BOE (overturns Plessy)
Mapp v. Ohio (SL 4th Amendment; exclusionary rule)
Gideon v Wainwright (SL 6th Amendment; right to attorney)
Miranda v. Arizona (SL 5th Amendment; “right to remain silent”)
Escobedo v. Illinois (SL 5th Amendment; self-incrimination)
Griswold v. CT (right of privacy)
Swann v. Charlotte-Merklenburg BOE (permits busing/quotas for school integration)
Roe v. Wade (extends right of privacy to abortion)
Buckley v. Valeo (defines campaign spending as speech; permits regulation of campaign spending too)
Baker v. Carr (redistricting not political question; courts can intervene)
Rostker v. Goldberg (constitutional to limit draft to men)
US v. Leon (good faith exception to exclusionary rule)
Lemon v. Kurtzman (“Lemon Test” for separation of church/state)
Cohen v. California (SL symbolic speech in 1st Amendment)
Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier School District (student 1st amendment rights can be regulated by school)
US v. Lopez (first restriction on commerce clause in nearly 50 years)
McConnell v. FEC (upholds parts of McCain Feingold Campaign Finance Bill)
Citizens United v. FEC (McCain Feingold provision banning spending by independent groups in the 60 days leading up to election is unconstitutional)
DC v. Heller (extended 2nd Amendment to right to have a handgun for self defense)</p>
<p>Definitely know the boldfaced ones, and if you have time, study the others. That should about cover it.</p>
<p>Oops, sorry! </p>
<p>And thank you so much Yankee, that helps a lot :)</p>
<p>what are the most important intro concepts to know?</p>
<p>How long do the FRQs have to be? Or does it not matter as long as they answer the question? What might be this year’s topics?/Hasn’t been on the exam for a while?</p>
<p>LOL just finished reading about great britain</p>
<p>^Good, you have the easiest country down cold :P</p>
<p>SteelTrapMindSet, FRQs need to adequately address the question. That means that they should definitely be longer than a phrase in most cases, but don’t have to be an entire page of writing for one part of one question.</p>
<p>Make sure you come full circle with each question.</p>
<p>In other words, if the question asks something like “Give one way in which the institutions of the Nigerian government provide for national unity” you couldn’t just say “presidents are required to receive a minimum amount of support in a large number of states in the country in order to get elected.”</p>
<p>You need to come full circle and also say “By having this requirement, the president will have more of a mandate from the entire country as a whole rather than just a couple of ethnic groups, and this will in turn provide for more national unity.”</p>
<p>So to answer your question, in most cases, three to five sentences that are right to the point and have no “fluff” in them will answer most parts of each question adequately. Some people write more than others, and that’s understandable, so don’t think that you have to limit yourself to five sentences.</p>
<p>That being said, you must come full circle with all of your answers.</p>
<p>Also, I recommend that you use the phrasing of each question in your answer. In other words, restate the question in your answer.</p>
<p>Also, I just realized one more thing about the corporatism question that was asked earlier.</p>
<p>Neocorporatism is also known as “societal corporatism” as that term may also come up.</p>
<p>Now, there’s one other thing I want to address right now, and that is all the specific information you guys need to know with regards to data and statistics. Below, I have listed each metric that you should be familiar with as well as a description to go along with it.</p>
<p>Data and Statistics</p>
<p>Gross Domestic Product (GDP): Total economic output of a country in one year.
Gross National Product (GNP): Total GDP of a country plus money earned by its citizens outside of the country.
GDP per capita: Tota annual economic ouput per person; best measurement for development of economy, but can be fleeting in rare instances; for example, an oil rich country has a high GDP per capita, but all of the money just goes to those in power and all of the people in the country are still living in wooden shacks. </p>
<p>Purchasing Power Parity (PPP): Takes into account purchasing power of local currency for local goods, and services; for example, the GDP per capita adjusted for PPP of Nigeria might be $2,500 because its goods and services are very cheap whereas the unadjusted GDP per capita will be lower at $1,500 as the cheapness of those goods and services is not taken into account.</p>
<p>GINI Index: Shows how economically equal a society is; a lower number means that the society is more equal and more developed and a higher number means that it’s less equal and less developed.</p>
<p>Human Development Index (HDI): Metric that measure how developed a country is; a higher number means more developed, and a lower number means less developed; sometimes listed as a ranking on FRQs, thus meaning that the best ranking, which will be the lowest number will be the best.</p>
<p>General Makeup of an Economy: There are three primary sectors in an economy. These include agriculture, industry, and *services.</p>
<p>Agriculture* is pretty self explanatory and refers to farming.</p>
<p>Industry is the manufacturing sector of the economy that involves factories and putting together new products, such as cars or cheap toys from China.</p>
<p>Services are much what the word implies: services, or maybe even spoils, in an economy, such as restaurants, hotels, financial services, like Hedge Funds, sporting events, and just about anything you would consider outside of agriculture and industry</p>
<p>The least developed LDCs, like Nigeria will have an economy composed mostly of agriculture, with a percentage of their economy looking something like this.</p>
<p>Nigeria
Agriculture: 40%
Industry: 35%
Services: 25%</p>
<p>Next, we get to the in between countries. Mexico, Iran, China, and Russia very generally fit this bill and they might have an economy similar to what’s below with an emphasis on industry as they are “developing.”</p>
<p>China
Agriculture: 20%
Industry: 50%
Services: 30%</p>
<p>Finally, we arrive at Industrialized Democracies, like Great Britain, and the EU, where most of the economic output is in services.</p>
<p>Great Britain
Agriculture: 5%
Industry: 20%
Services: 75%</p>
<p>Freedom House Ratings: measures the level of freedom and transparency in a country. A lower rating means that the country is freer and more transparent, and a higher rating means that it is more authoritarian and less free.</p>
<p>Also, you guys know that you need to have some basic knowledge of the European Union as well, don’t you? I’m going to find you all a quick review guide of all of that for tomorrow morning to look over.</p>
<p>I’m so lucky that I’m taking this next Thursday…but I have French tomorrow instead.</p>
<p>OK guys, I found you a good overview of the European Union that you can look over for tomorrow.</p>
<p>If you forgot that this was part of the exam, then I would recommend that you spend most of your time studying the very general timeline of the EU, such as the basic treaties and how the Union came to be.</p>
<p>I would also consider studying arguments for and against enlargement.</p>
<p>After you have a general sense of the entire thing and if you have time, then you could go through all of the basic institutions of the EU.</p>
<p>If I were to sum up each of the institutions for you, I would say something of the following.</p>
<p>Executive Branch
The Commission: Head of Government of EU
The European Council: Sort of, but not exactly like the Head of State of EU, at least that’s my interpretation; helps communicate political direction of EU</p>
<p>Legislative Branch
EU Parliament: Directly elected lower chamber of legislative branch
Council of Ministers: Not to be confused with the EU Council, represents interests of member states’ governments much like US Senate represented state legislatures before senators were directly elected.</p>
<p>Judicial Branch
EU Court of Justice: Surprisingly very strong; basically EU’s version of US Supreme Court</p>
<p>Anyhow, here’s the link with more details.</p>
<p><a href=“http://apcomparative.wikispaces.com/EU[/url]”>http://apcomparative.wikispaces.com/EU</a></p>
<p>I’m signing off for now. You’ll all do well tomorrow. You’re smart, hard-working people, and nothing is stopping you from having success.</p>
<p>Anyhow, I wish you all the best of luck, and I’ll talk to you all after the exam.</p>
<p>Best,
yankeefreak</p>
<p>For all those who took Comp Gov today:</p>
<p>So how’d it go? You guys should just be getting out right about now.</p>
<p>What was easy? What was hard? Were the FRQs pretty straightforward? Are there any concerns you might have?</p>
<p>Let me know how I can be of help.</p>
<p>My students reported a <em>very</em> easy exam. :)</p>
<p>Laughably easy, MC was pretty much common sense no actual specific knowledge needed, on the FRQ I believe that they actually used a question from a couple years before and most of it was incredibly simple stuff anyway</p>
<p>MC was extremely easy, though there were some parts of the FRQ I was uncertain of</p>
<p>what was the social movement in China?</p>
<p>what was the characteristic of bureaucracy? (ministers appointed, unelected servants?)</p>
<p>SEZs in China characteristics?</p>
<p>controversial issue in Nigeria since independence (bureaucracy, military peace stuff etc.)</p>