<p>At my school, US is 1st sem and Comp is 2nd sem.
I havent found any book on Comp Gov
anyone know of any?
i keep seeing the PR book for US Gov everywhere though...</p>
<p>Comp gov is still more obscure than us. At my high school, us gov was a required course for to graduate, so they offered ap for students who wanted a "challenge." This year was the first year ap comp gov was offered as a class (i took comp ind. study with the us gov class in '05-'06). Get the Ethel Woods book for comp gov; it does a good job of organizing the information you'll learn in the class.</p>
<p>whats the diff between the two?</p>
<p>us gov focuses on history, institutions, and operations of the us government. you'll need to know about amendments, major legislation, functions of the various roles of government branches (and how they're defined, aside from what they do), etc. there's more i'm sure; check collegeboard.com for course descriptions. comparative is similar to us except it covers six countries (britain, russia, iran, china, nigeria, and mexico). The comparative test is a little more general than the us test; you will be asked a lot of basic questions about the nature of a country's political environment and history, as well as basic comparative government terms and concepts, such as "which of the following best describes an illiberal democracy (or, if it's in the FR, "describe and define an illiberal democracy"), and "Which of the following is not a characterstic of the russian election system. you'll also, naturally, be asked questions that compare and contrast the systems of two or more countries ("in which of the following groups of three countries has democracy been a highly supressed movement?"). again, check the colllegeboard website, as i'm sure it'll be more informative than I am</p>
<p>thanks a ton aje!</p>
<p>oh thanks aje! at our school they only offer US gov i believe</p>
<p>I agree with whoever said to use Ethel Woods for comp. gov.</p>
<p>sorry about the vagueness, but my comp gov book was just called comparative government: AP edition, and had four authors.</p>