AP Comparative – Day 1 Agenda Comparative Government & Politics Enduring Understanding –Comparative Government & Politics is a branch of political science that helps provide you with an entirely new prism through which to perceive and interact with your world. Politics is a complex discipline to study that will require a wholly new vocabulary, habits of mind and work ethic 1.Find your information form and fill out including book number, record in your assignment books (or take picture with your phone) the information in BOLD (website address, quia login and pw, check homework calendar) 2.Get Textbook – put name in it in inside cover – record book number on form STOP and listen 3.Get assigned computer and login – STOP and listen 4.Open website follow these directionshttp://pbworks.com/directions 5.Intro to course organization, technology, content, methodology– A new framework w/ new vocabulary to critically perceive, analyze and evaluate the political world and Unit 1 previewIntro Let’s get to work 1.What is politics? - identify a general definition of politics as you Read AR #8 pdf 5 Conflict and Cooperationpolitics 2.What is Comparative government and why compare? – read AR #9 p 1-4

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Unit 1 -Introduction to Comparative Politics Training camp for the rest of the course & the rest of your life or how to bedazzle friends & enemies with high-falutin jargon in 17 not-so-easy days A.Why “Government and Politics,” aren’t they the same thing? B.What are the purposes (World Today) and methods of comparison and classification and how are they used?World Today 1.Ways to analyze government and politics (ST chart and component methods) 2.Normative and empirical analysis(see Wood 13 & AR5i p 2) C.What concepts like state, nation, regime, government, etc, etc. (Bold words in Wood and scroll through AR5i after p 5) will we need to use? D.Process and policy (what is politics, purpose of government; what are political science and comparative politics; common policy challenges) E.What are the Big Challenges all political systems are facing and how? Globalization (economics too) and Democratization

Need to study among other things: 1.Environment (political, cultural, geographical, demographic, economic issues or problems) causing need for public policies 2.Processes of making policies and putting them into effect. 3.Actors involved in making and implementing policy 4.Sources and methods of information used to make policy 5.Environment in which policies are made 6.Methods and biases in policy-maker selection 7.Conflict and cooperation – methods, prevalence, role, actors 8.Systems & structures influencing & influenced by policy-making Therefore – First - we will need to understand the basics of political science. Then we will use the College Board’s Substantive Topic framework to analyze and compare systems

Substantive Topics and AP Terminology 1. Sovereignty, Authority, Power, 2. Political Institutions 3. Citizens, Society & State 4. Political and economic Change 5. Public Policy Current Events 1.Open text to p 13 – renumber bullets i, ST1, ST4, ST3, ST2, ST5

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Politics is the relationships between individuals and groups, processes, actions and institutions that make collective decisions. Usually these are focused on answering the questions: 1) Who gets what (of scarce resources), when, where and how? (another way of asking this is: what should gov’t do and how should it do it?) 2) Who gets to decide and how does “who” get decided? Therefore, if the above is an acceptable answer to what is politics, then what conclusions can we draw about what needs to be studied in order to understand politics so that we can do comparative politics? But politics are also the effects of the answers to these questions – Conflict arises over the answers to the above two questions and politics are also the management of these different, and resultant conflicts