Is the United States Exceptional?

After comparing how various countries run elections, regulate their economies, collect and share revenue (NHS, CAP, etc.) I want to know if you think the United States can do it better.  Prepare a 3-4 min "Daily show correspondent style" skit comparing United States policy to another country we have studied.

Use iMovie or other platform to record your video. We will airplay in class beginning Friday May 29th

Requirements
     5 pts. Policies clearly identified
     5 pts. Critique of policies justified through factual data
     5 pts. Solution is offered (may already be a policy here or somewhere else
     5 pts. logical (reasonably within the realm of possibility)

You may work alone or with a partner.

DUE: Friday May 29th

Inequality for All

Link to documentary

Raises questions (and attempts to answer) the causes, problems with, and solutions regarding income inequality

AP Comp Final Review

We will have our Final on Tuesday May 19th.

Pick up a review checklist in class on Monday

AP TEST/ Final Review

1. Authoritarian
2. Bicameral
3. Causation
4. Charismatic legitimacy 
5. Civil Liberties
6. Civil Rights
7. Civil Society
8. Cleavages
9. Coinciding (cleavages)
10. Crosscutting (cleavages)
11. Code Law
12. Command Economy
13. Common Law
14. Cooptation
15. Corporatism
16. Correlation
17. Country
18. Conservatism
19. Democratization
20. Dependency Theory
21. Developed countries
22. Developing countries
23. Devolution
24. Federalism
25. First-past-the-post, SMD
26. GDP
27. Gini Index
28. Globalization
29. Government
30. Grassroots Movement
31. HDI
32. Illiberal democracy
33. Institutions
34. Judicial Review
35. Legitimacy
36. Liberal (as an ideology)
37. Liberal democracy
38. Libertarian
39. Market Economy
40. Marxism/Communism
41. Nation
42. Nationalism
43. Neoliberal economics
44. Per capita GDP
45. Political culture
46. Political economy
47. Political Ideology
48. Political Recruitment
49. Political Socialization
50. Politics
51. Post Materialist
52. Proportional representation
53. Radical
54. Rational-legal legitimacy
55. Reactionaries
56. Referendum
57. Regime
58. Rentier State
59. Revolution
60. Socialist
61. Sovereignty
62. State
63. Structural Adjustment Program
64. Theocracy
65. Traditional legitimacy
66. Transparency
67. Under-developed countries
68. Unitary

Link to Quizlet 68 terms

Review these terms by identifying each significance to the (6) countries we've studied

Use the following website to review previous FRQs AP Central

Iran Unit Terms

1. Assembly of Religious experts

2. ayatollahs

3. bazaaris

4. bonyads

5. Constitutions of 1906 and 1979

6. Expediency Council

7. fundamentalism

8. Guardian Council

9. Guardianship of the jurists (velayat – e – faqih)

10. imam

11. islamicists

12. Majles

13. Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

14. rentier state

15. rents

16. shah

17. Mossadegh

18. Shi’ism

20. Sunnis

21. supreme leader

22. White Revolution

23. Theocracy

24. Farsi

25. Qur’an

26. Shari’a

27. coup d’etat

28. Islamism (political islam)

29. Hezbollahis

30. dual society

31. linkage institutions (media, political parties)

32. Import substitution Industrialization (Mexico, Iran)

33. PPP Purchasing Power Parity (think effects of sanctions)

34. Unitary

35. Qanun (statutes)

Iran: Frontline video (Intro)

We watched the following video in class on Friday as an introduction to Iran.

Link to "Death in Tehran"

Iranian Politics (divisions within the regime)

Read the following article on Rouhani (Who is he?)

Read Breifing Paper on Iran

Read the following article: 2012 Elections in Iran

     Answer the following questions:
          1. Does Iran have a well developed political party system?
          2. What was voter turnout in 2012?
               2a. What is it usually?
          3. Why are the results (turnout numbers) being contested?
          4. What is the Green Movement? (2009)