Here is the best, concise, TO THE POINT, summary of AP Comparative Government and Politics Unit 1, Political Systems, Regimes, and Government. The MAIN PURPOSE of this video is to summarize Unit 1 as concisely as possible.
Even if you are NOT taking this AP Class, this is a great way to get introduced to political science and comparative government!
This video goes over the following terms:
Empirical and Normative Evidence
Quantitative and Qualitative data
HDI, GDP per capita, GDP growth rate, Gini Index, Freedom House, Transparency International, Fragile State Index
State and Nation
Government and Regime
Forms of Government: Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, Autocracy, Totalitarian, Oligarchy, Theocracy, Direct Democracy, Representative Democracy, Illiberal Democracy
Rule of Law and Rule by Law
Authoritarian vs. Democracy
Democratization: Case Study of Mexico and Russia
Sources and Changes of Power and Authority (of all 6 AP Countries)
Federal and Unitary Systems
Devolution
Legitimacy (of all 6 AP Countries)
Sovereignty
Stability
Internal and External Actors
Timestamp
Introduction to Comparative Government: 00:00
Types of Data: Quantitative and Qualitative (1.1): 00:21
States and Nations (1.2): 02:03
Forms of Regimes (1.3): 02:28
Democratization (1.4): 03:11
Case Study: Mexico and Russia (1.4): 03:46
Sources and Change of Power and Authority (1.5-1.6): 05:11
Federal and Unitary Systems and Devolution (1.7): 05:50
Legitimacy (1.8-1.9): 06:58
Stability (1.10): 07:55
Review Questions: 09:03
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