AP Comparative Government & Politics with Daniel Lazar (Daniel Lazar)

In commemoration of Russia's 1994 New Year's Eve assault on Chechnya (28 years ago today), this episode explores the Chechen struggle for independence in the 1990's, how Yeltsin failed, and how Putin's weaponized Chechnya to bolster his legitimacy.

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This talk seeks to summarize and sometimes analyze the functions of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches in the UK.

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Eduardo Magalhães III is a Professor of Political Science at Simpson College and currently serves as the Chief Reader of the AP Comparative Government and Politics exam.

Dr. Magalhães recommends that listeners of this podcast read Mexican Lives by Judith Adler Hellman as well as Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham. On behalf of Dr. Magalhães and his family, I might nudge you to join the Magellans at the Movies wherever you get podcasts. 

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Trained in law, Vincent Okwechime worked for Shell Oil Nigeria as a lawyer, manager of oil spill cleanup and compensation, head of security, and lastly as brand manager. He retired in 2010. We have been friends ever since. He is an earnest, kind, and wise man.

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I sit down with four esteemed CoGoPo teachers--Ryan DeMarco, Lisa Dudgeon, Jane Highley, and Anthony Peek--who just finished reading AP CoGoPo exams in Salt Lake City. We reflect on our week in assessing exams, giving a little extra focus to the argument essay.

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Karen Waples is an educator, an AP Consultant, and a textbook author. We discuss her new textbook, Comparative Government and Politics: Stories of the World.

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A couple days after the AP CoGoPo exam and a couple weeks before graduation, I sat down with my students to reflect on GoGoPo. We explored the most valuable lessons they learned, the concepts they struggled with, and the countries they were most and least interested in. We wrapped with some gentle advice for students new to CoGoPo. 

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This short talk defines political culture then explores Almond's three levels of political culture before diving into cultural congruence and consensual vs. conflictual political cultures.

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Here are the lecture notes.

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My students discuss my lecture (in the previous episode) on China's long struggle for internal sovereignty. They discuss the key questions raised by the lecture, they share the most important lessons, and they offer some comparative analyses along the way.

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Our theme song is "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (License). Contact Daniel Lazar at danielaaronlazar (at) gmail.com with questions or comments. Thank you for listening.

The CoGoPod welcomes my pal Obi. Born in Texas, raised in Port Harcourt, and now, like me, an immigrant in Berlin, Obi and I dive into his Nigerian youth. This is the narrative of but one man. A good man.

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This talk offers some introductory insights into Persian political culture, with a particular focus on political socialization, elite recruitment, and interest articulation and aggregation.

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Here are the lecture notes.

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I sat down with esteemed AP CoGoPo teachers Ryan DeMarco and Anthony Peek just as we finished reading AP CoGoPo exams in Salt Lake City. Together we grapple with the dreaded Question 4.

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Anthony recommends The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920. Ryan recommends The Foreign Affairs Interview podcast AND The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War. Daniel recommends About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin, depsite not having heard a single episode at the time of this recording (update: I've since heard it. Ryan was right...and so was I, for once). 

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This lecture explores China's long struggle for internal sovereignty. Despite PRC claims of being "Zhong Guo Ren" (Chinese People with Universal Values), China is a fragmented society bound by the chains of the CCP. To illustrate this, we dive into the long struggles with Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong.
(0:00 - 16:25) Setting the Table
(16:25-74:30) Xinjiang
(75:32-97:53) Tibet
(97:53-138:56) Hong Kong

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The Power Point notes for this lecture are available on my website. Our theme song is "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (License). Contact Daniel Lazar at danielaaronlazar (at) gmail.com with questions or comments. Thank you for listening.

Dr. Anne Marie Choup is a professor of political science and an AP CoGoPo Reader. Here is her CV.

Her students read: 

• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe
• Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong, by Louisa Lim.  
• Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria, by Noo Saro-Wiwa. 

Yours truly heartily recommended: 

• The Wind of Change podcast by Patrick Radden Keefe.  Embarrassingly, I sang the song. Could've edited that out. Meh. 
• The People’s Republic of Amnesia and The Little Red Podcast, both by Louisa Lim. 

Dr. Choup urges you to listen to the Economist Daily podcast and stay tuned to resources like Transparency International, Human Rights Watch, Freedom House, and Amnesty International. 

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Contact Daniel Lazar at danielaaronlazar (at) gmail.com with questions or comments. Our theme song is "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (License). 

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This short talk offers considerations from which to launch scholarly pursuits of Mexican politics and discusses the many policy challenges that the Mexican regime faces.

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Our theme song is "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (License). Contact Daniel Lazar at danielaaronlazar (at) gmail.com with questions or comments. Thank you for listening.

I am joined by Hugh Williamson, Director of the Europe and Central Asia Division of Human Rights Watch.

Check out...
-Hugh's website and his writing for Human Rights Watch

-A collection of Hugh's writing and speaking about worker priests
-The 1982 film, The MIssing.

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If you teach this class and want to participate in the CoGoPod in any manner whatsoever, please contact Daniel Lazar at danielaaronlazar (at) gmail.com. I cordially invite questions, comments, and suggestions.

Our theme song is "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (License). 

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I am joined by a virtual Mt. Rushmore of CoGoPo teachers: Ryan DeMarco, Lisa Dudgeon, Jane Highley, and Anthony Peek. They explore their favorite countries to teach and the most challenging concepts to communicate to students. Then they offer advice to students who are to beginning their studies of CoGoPo.

Please support the CoGoPod here. I truly appreciate your support. Every little bit helps. Thank you! Big thanks to Drew Anderson for his generous donation. Good luck with your first year teaching CoGoPo Drew. We're rooting for ya!

If you teach this class and want to participate in the CoGoPod in any manner whatsoever, please contact Daniel Lazar at danielaaronlazar (at) gmail.com. I cordially invite questions, comments, and suggestions. 

Our theme song is "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (License). 

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Dr. Ryan Daugherty is an AP CoGoPo Reader and a professor of political science at Butler University. 

His students read: 

• Most of the dense Orvis and Drogus textbook that podcast alum Karen Waples used as a basis for her AP CoGoPo textbook. 
• Ziblatt and Levitsky's How Democracies Die. 
• Too many articles to list!

He recommends On Populist Reason by Ernesto Laclau. 

Yours truly heartily recommended Ziblatt and Levitsky's upcoming release, Saving Democracy (coming this fall). 

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Contact Daniel Lazar at danielaaronlazar (at) gmail.com with questions or comments. Our theme song is "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (License). 

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This short talk explores the causes and consequences of ubiquitous corruption for Nigerian politics. While there is a virtual cornucopia of corruption cases from which to choose, I dive into three illustrative cases while focusing on the implications of corruption on the broader political landscape.

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This talk explores the domestic and global reactions to the political, economic, and environmental impacts of oil in Nigeria.

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Students debate the motion: “Western Liberal Democracy Would Be Wrong for China". While they did not have the luxury of choosing their side of the debate, given the choice, most or all would rather argue against the motion.

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What does the upper house of Parliament do and what should be done about this esteemed, if sometimes anachronistic legislative body?

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Contact Daniel Lazar at danielaaronlazar (at) gmail.com with questions or comments. Our theme song is "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (License). 

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This short talk offers considerations from which to launch our scholarly pursuit of Nigerian politics.

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This talk offers considerations from which to commence scholarly inquiries into Chinese politics before diving into ten policy challenges that the PRC is facing.

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This talk offers considerations from which to launch our scholarly pursuits of Iranian politics and concludes by diving into policy challenges that the Iranian regime faces.

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This talk explores how and why Yeltsin and the rest of the world failed to see the revolutionary situation in which Russia found itself in the 1990's and how Putin capitalized on that chaos.

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Contact Daniel Lazar at danielaaronlazar (at) gmail.com with questions or comments. Our theme song is "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (License). 

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