AP Comparative Government and Politics flashcards

What's in it

Every deck follows the course outline, with tags you can study or suspend topic by topic. Open a deck to study its free sample right here.

Study guide

Topics covered

The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.

• Political Systems and Regimes 82
  • Methods and Key Terms 12
  • Regime Types and Democratization 13
  • Power Legitimacy and Stability 16
  • Constitutions and Turning Points 26
  • Federal and Unitary Structure 15
• Political Institutions 63
  • Executives and Legislatures 18
  • Courts and the Rule of Law 8
  • Executives 19
  • Legislatures 11
  • Courts 7
• Political Culture and Participation 22
• Party and Electoral Systems 25
• Political and Economic Change 27

A study plan

• 8 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
• 5 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.

Willys schedules reviews for you (FSRS spaced repetition), so the daily number above is only for new cards; reviews of what you have learned come back on their own. Study a topic's cards right after you meet it in class, suspend topics you have not reached yet, and use the app's quiz mode in the final two weeks.

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3. Study. The exam comes in as its own collapsible folder, every card scheduled by FSRS spaced repetition. Nothing you already have is changed.

About these cards

Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.

Checked against:

• Topic outline follows the College Board AP Comparative Government and Politics Course and Exam Description (effective Fall 2026, Units 1–5); used as an outline only, no text copied.
• Country facts checked against the constitutions of Mexico (1917), Russia (1993, as amended 2020), Iran (1979, revised 1989), China (1982, as amended 2018) and Nigeria (1999) in English translation and UK statutes on legislation.gov.uk (Open Government Licence); reference only, no text copied.
• Data and other facts checked against the World Bank's World Development Indicators (Gini index; CC BY 4.0), the UNDP Human Development Reports data center (Human Development Index; CC BY 3.0 IGO), the Ministerial Code and ministers' pages on GOV.UK (Open Government Licence v3.0), UK Parliament membership data and the WTO's member pages; reference only, no text copied.
• Topic outline follows the College Board AP Comparative Government and Politics Course and Exam Description (effective Fall 2026; Units 1–5, six course countries); used as an outline only, no text copied.
• Structures checked against the constitutions of Mexico (1917), Russia (1993, as amended 2020), Iran (1979, revised 1989), China (1982, as amended 2018) and Nigeria (1999) in English translation, and UK statutes on legislation.gov.uk (Open Government Licence); reference only, no text copied.
• Facts follow the AP Comparative Government study decks in this folder, which were checked against the constitutions of Mexico (1917), Russia (1993, as amended 2020), Iran (1979, revised 1989), China (1982, as amended 2018) and Nigeria (1999) in English translation, and UK statutes on legislation.gov.uk (Open Government Licence); reference only, no text copied.

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