<p>Now that we are safely two days from the administration of the test, anybody care to discuss what they put down for the free response answers?</p>
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<p>my free response answers are not the greatest, but feel free to compare mine with yours and if you disagree, you can let me know as well. this is simply what i put, by no means is it correct.</p>
<p>1.) -establishing platform to represent beliefs
-advancing platform into action, such as legislation
-providing unity for a group of people</p>
<p>2.) -alloting increased power to regional governments in unitary governments
UK- Welsh Parliament</p>
<p>3.) -overthrow existing force by any means necessary, including use of an army, Red Army and Revultionary Guard
-establish a new government that is based on the ideals of a specific philosophy, Mao and Communism, Khomeini and Islam</p>
<p>4.) Command Economy: Government regulation of economy through quota
Market Economy: Control of production by supply and demand forces
Comparison: Government plays much stronger role in Command Economy</p>
<p>5.) (this one i BS-ed) - Mass Line Campaigns -VOTING, even if its not used for any purpose -patron-client networks (ha!)</p>
<p>6.) a- two houses in a single legislature, usually upper and lower
b- UK- upper House of Lords, lower House of Commons
c-One house to represent regions equally and one house based on entire population
d-differnent duties for each house, increasing checks and balances
e- regional policies may differ from federal policy
-policies will be influenced by each region, ex. of minister from each region in Nigeria who helps establish national policy</p>
<p>7.) a vote on a certain action to be taken/implemented, can help establlish legitimacy
b.) UK- Prime Minister, Euro
c.) Russia- President, Chechnya</p>
<p>8.) (we didn’t learn this, i totally guessed) a.) Elections by population
b.)in Nigeria to win, you need majority of votes (or most) and 25% of votes in 2/3 of the states, not in Iran
in Nigeria, the candidates do not have to be approved of by a higher authority, unlike in Iran where vetting by the Supreme Leader or other council can lead to removal of certain candidates</p>
<p>Yeah, I used the word ideologies to get that point across i believe</p>
<p>2.) Devolution is when a unitary government awards some governing power to local officials in an effort to minimally decentralize their system. Keeping in mind they hold the right to revoke the power they award. Scottish Parliament and Welsh National Assembly good examples in UK</p>
<p>oo yea, i was a bit confused on that question (1) for a minute…i wasn’t sure if they wanted separate reasons for each but good thing i figured it out lol</p>
<p>I put exactly the same as you in (5)–it should eb right</p>
<p>For #5, I put patron clientalism (mentioned gaunxi and danwei), corporatism, cooptation, nationalism, and the spoils system (mentioned patrimonialism). It’s a lot but I know you can’t get marked down for extra/irrelevant/wrong information. What do you think? Will that cut it? </p>
<p>That was truly a ridiculous question, the answer should have been nothing, nothing, and nothing. I guess they wanted us to know that people do co-exist with government in non-democratic ways, especially with Bush’s recent democracy-for-the-world campaign.</p>
<p>I do not think nationalism would get you credit, but guanxi, corporatism and cooptation would probably count. I think the best were symbolic votes, patron-client networks, and mass mobilization campaigns (like the Hundred Flowers Campaign)</p>
<p>But when you think about it, mass line isn’t really a characteristic of authoritarianism in ideology. It’s just one obscure thing that Mao adopted (same with symbolic votes – Russia is the only country that comes to mind for it and they did it purely for Cold War points). I’m sure it’ll be on the answer key whenever collegeboard puts it online, but I disagree because the answer simply isn’t applicable to more than one regime. Corporatism, patron clientalism, etc. on the other hand is prevalent among many of them.</p>
<p>IDK, I am pretty sure they would award credit for mass mobilization campaigns, the question did not ask for political participation in all authoritarian systems, just to identify three examples…correct me if I’m wrong but they shouldn’t have to be applicable for all or even multiple regimes…? Both China and Russia had them, and they are the two emerging democracies covered in the course. But idk. It’s ETS. lol </p>
<p>I can’t believe that the EU actually came up.</p>
<p>non-governmental organizations!! lol. i thought they meant general, not specific, for #5</p>
<p>i dont know, i think you can get as specific as you want</p>
<p>hm, number 5 was an interesting question and i was also concerned that Mass Line Campaigns were too specific to China and Mao. I was actually prepared for the EU questions, which was my luck I guess, our teacher went over it the day before.</p>
<p>Why would the EU be on it anyway, it’s about comparing 6 countries, EU is neither a country nor in those 6.</p>
<p>EU is a big deal in Britain though, related to conservative and labour thought and anyway, there was a chapter in Wood’s book so I’m not complaining.</p>
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<li>Elite recruitment
Controlling Gov
If win, dictate policy</li>
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<p>more later</p>
<p>What did you guys put for question 7, part c? In Russia, what was the referendum about?</p>