Unit One - Foundations of Gov't. and Economics

Focus Standards:

Government/Civic Understandings

SS7CG1 Compare and contrast different forms of citizen participation in government.

a. Explain the role of citizen participation in autocratic and democratic governments.

b. Describe the two predominant forms of democratic governments: parliamentary and presidential.

Economic Understandings

SS7E1 Analyze different economic systems.

a. Compare how traditional, command, and market economies answer the economic questions of 1-what to produce, 2-how to produce, and 3-for whom to produce.

b. Explain that countries have a mixed economic system located on a continuum between pure market and pure command.

c. Compare and contrast the economic systems in SS7E1ab, E2, E3abce