First student to post
a quality inference using the chart above to compare the U.S
(even though the US is NOT a CP 6 country) and the UK and EU area with the
political culture of the
welfare state will win a "major (not really) award," in class on Monday.
More importantly, here are some great AP Comparative Review sites (
thanks, U.S. Gov't Teachers Blog):
Rebecca Small's "Conceptual Terms" which my students all have learned and will review
Scribd's AP Comparisons. This is a great site if you want a quick review of major topics such as type of government, corruption, elections, ethnic conflict, social cleavages, and more. If you look at the right side of the page you will see summaries for each country. Russia, Iran, China (but not updated for Xi), Nigeria (Mexico and GB not there and EU is really weak)
Andrew Conneen's students' overview of each country (this is really good, but now two years old so Russia has some changes as does Iran).
Ethel Woods' overview of each country (again be warned that this is a few years old)
Hauss's multiple choice questions from his previous edition
Quizlet also has some great flashcards. The best way to search them is to write "AP Comparative Name of country" into the Quizlet search engine. The top search items is usually quite good.
1 comment:
Approximately 3.1% of the Gross Domestic Product of the United Kingdom is from their corporate tax rates, in comparison with the United States, where only 2.3% of the GDP is from corporate tax rates. While the UK does tax their corporations more, what can this tell us about their welfare state? UK politics are often centered around the continual improvement of their welfare state, making sure that the government budget is utilized so that the largest portion of the welfare-using population has access to such programs year after year. As such, their political culture has developed an open approach to the welfare state. In comparison, the United States, ever since President Franklin D. Roosevelt laid the foundations for our modern welfare state within his various New Deal programs, has viewed welfare as a program that takes from the hard-working average American and gives his money to the "lazy" welfare program beneficiaries. As such, our political culture has developed two opinions on welfare, either increasing taxes to pay for more welfare, or decreasing taxes to pay for less welfare, depending on which party is in dominance. This is where the graph provided comes into play. While the UK, a supporter of the growth of the welfare state in their region, taxes their large corporations at a rate that provides 3.1% of the GDP, the US only taxes their "hard-working" major corporations at a rate that provides for only 2.3% of the GDP. That is how the US political culture over the welfare state can be compared to the UK political culture over their own welfare state by using the provided graph.
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