2012 AP Comparative Government

<p>The imprisonment of Ken Saro-Wiwa would fit your bill for the controversial issue in Nigeria from the sounds of it.</p>

<p>SEZs in China are primarily in the southern portion of the country and are established there in order to make the transportation of goods more efficient and faster.</p>

<p>In terms of the bureaucracy question, I think so long as you wrote anything that came to mind when you think about what bureaucracy is, then you are probably be fine.</p>

<p>Lastly, a couple key social movements in China include the Democracy Wall movement or simply the Democracy movement. However, my guess is that they were probably looking for something along the lines of Falun Gong.</p>

<p>Did the study guides and materials I gave you guys help?</p>

<p>Also, anything else on the exam you have questions about?</p>

<p>they were mulitple choice and the question for Nigeria was between a few things and then military presence in peace keeping missions or bloated bureaucracy</p>

<p>bureaucracy question was between: appointed cabinet members/ministers and unelected civil servants, or redtape and inefficiency</p>

<p>social movement was: helping in 2008 after earthquake, protesting urban development, women in the gov’t sponsored All China’s Women federation</p>

<p>can someone post a comprehensive list of the multiple choice questions?</p>

<p>pretty easy. some MC was weird but writing was really easy.</p>

<p>yankee freak, why are you all over this thread? You took it last year get over it. All of the questions you talked about were multiple choice, not FRQ. and no your study guide did not help. there wasn’t even anything with PPP, gini index, hdi, or any of that so thanks</p>

<p>what are two powers shared by the duma and h.o.c.?</p>

<p>the question was of function i said to represent the people in the legislature and i said to pass bills into law</p>

<p>Seemed like an easy exam! We’ll see in July if it was actually as easy as I thought it was. ;)</p>

<p>I said to pass legislation and to control the budget/appropriations. Think I’ll get the points?</p>

<p>i said pass legislation and check exec. then it came up in the last part (part d)</p>

<p>what body decides who runs for majles in iran? GC?
what country had corporatist then pluralism? Mexico?
what country has one term leader? Mexico?</p>

<p>I said the same things you said, I know the first and the last are right…not sure about the middle one</p>

<p>also what were the environmental policies? we never went over that in class</p>

<p>i said that britain once resembled a corporatist/neocorporatist structure with TUC and CBI being the union/ business (respectively) representation for the government. Especially with the quangos, however, Thatcherite and post-Thatcherite Britain has reduced the power of the unions so now more pluralism exists</p>

<p>@knightsgk I think there’s a little bit of confusion as to what the study guide is. The study guide I’m referring to is the post on the second page of this thread with all those links to various Comp Gov resources, such as the College Board released exam as well as that huge list of Google Docs that others asked for.</p>

<p>In terms of the data/statistics I listed, those types of questions only show up on the FRQs every couple of years, so its not a surprise that they didn’t show up this year.</p>

<p>Lastly, you may shun help, and you may find help unhelpful to you, but others might disagree with you. You might reconsider before you shun a good samaritan with only good intentions.</p>

<p>For what it’s worth, I found Yankeefreak’s advice helpful.</p>

<p>Did anyone get the answer for the chart of Russia. It didn’t seem like the chart “supported” any of the conclusions that were answer choices.</p>

<p>What did the chart generally say, what was the question asking, and what were the answer choices to choose from. I can’t guarantee that I know the answer, but I’ll give you my insight.</p>

<p>So the Guardian Council decides who runs for the majiles?</p>

<p>Yes, that’s correct.</p>

<p>Also, just a random note, but I was going through some of the sample student responses for Comp Gov from last year, and I saw that my response for question # 7 (response A) is actually up on the College Board website. I never thought that would happen.</p>

<p>Ok yankee, again, no one cares. For question 6 (conceptual analysis) you were supposed to talk about SPECIFIC policies from certain countries right? So if I said GB devolved powers to regional governments, that would be right, right?</p>

<p>mc was kind of difficult most of the free response was easy BESIDES the pluralism corporatism one i just put down all the facts i knew and just wanna get points for that and by the time i got to the last one about russia and england by brain was fried i could have done so much better on it i think i got a 3 mabe BARELY a 4</p>