THE AUTHOR
Ken Wedding studied comparative politics at Carleton College as an undergraduate. He began teaching the Advanced Placement course in comparative government and politics when it was introduced in 1986. Over 80% of his students at Hopkins High School in Minnesota regularly received scores of 4 and 5 on those exams. He first read AP government and politics exams in 1992.

Wedding was one of the original moderators of the AP Government and Politics electronic discussion group for teachers, and remains a regular contributor to that online group. He has conducted College Board workshops and institutes for teachers at Triton College, Oakland University, Saint Mary's College, and Carleton College. He was an adjunct instructor and researcher at Hamline University for 10 years.

He wrote Quick Guide to the Internet for Political Science in 1997 and has written the Instructor's Manual and Test Bank to accompany Hauss' Comparative Politics: Domestic Responses to Global Challenges. In 2005, the Center for Learning published Wedding's unit of lesson plans for AP Comparative Government and Politics.

Wedding writes a blog, teaching comparative, for teachers of comparative politics and government that some students have found useful. He also monitors a Facebook group for AP Comparative Government and Politics.