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AP US GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS CHAPTER 8

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?PAGE ? ?PAGE ?1? Chapter 8 ? Political Participation seq NL1 \r 0 \h Overview The popular view that Americans do not vote because of apathy is not quite right. It would be much closer to the truth to state that Americans don?t register to vote?but once registered, Americans vote at about the same rate as citizens in other nations. Many other factors?having nothing to do with apathy?also shape participation rates. These include age, race, party organization, barriers to registration, and popular views about the significance of elections.

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AP? United States Government and Politics FRQ PACKET In this packet are all of the FRQs that the College Board has asked during the May AP Government & Politics Exam. There is also a table of contents on the following page that match up each of the FRQs to the chapters that we will cover in your textbook. In order to review the key (answers) for each of the FRQs, you will need to go to the College Board website which is accessible from my website. http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/2086.html FRQ GUIDE (updated 7/11/2013) Chapter/Topic Corresponding FRQ used on previous AP Exams?Year:Number

Data Check - Wilson Book - Political Participation

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DATA CHECK: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AP: UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT & POLITICS NAME:_______________________________ Read Chapter 8 in your textbook. Answer the questions by looking at the following tables or figures in the chapter. Table 8.1 (Page 184): Two Methods of Calculating Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections, 1948?2008 1. What percentage of the voting age population (give a range) in America voted in these elections? __________________________________________________________________________ 2. What percentage of registered voters (give a range) in America voted in these elections? ___________________________________________________________________________ Table 8.2 (Page 185): Two Ways of Calculating Voting Turnout Here and Abroad

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Page 8-13,14-19,37-42,43-50,740-743, 70-78 What is the definition of government? The institutions that make authoritative decisions for any given society What are the policymaking institutions in the US? The congress, the president, the courts, and federal administrative agencies (bureacracy) What is politics? The process by which we select out governmental leaders and what policies they [ersure. Politics produces suthoritative decisions about public issues What is US vter turnout compared to other countries? America does quite poorly when judges by its voter turnout, with one of the lowest rates in the world Why does voter turn out matter? Voter turn out has an effect on who holds power. Because so many people don?t show up, the results are a distorted sample of the whole.
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