Test Bank for Essentials of Comparative Politics, 8th Edition by O'Neil (All Chapters included)
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Comparative Political Science
Complete Test Bank for Essentials of Comparative Politics, 8th Edition by Patrick H O'Neil ; ISBN13: 9781324062004...(Full Chapters included Chapter 1 to 11)...Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. States
Chapter 3. Nations and Society
Chapter 4. Political Economy
Chapter 5. Democr...
a. object or value that people support through public funds.
b. large, monolithic organization that depends on a core bureaucracy and a
set of standard operating procedures.
c. organization or activity that is self-perpetuating and valued for its own sake.
d. organization or action that is subject to government regulation.
2. ________ is the study of domestic politics across countries, whereas ________
concentrates more on the ways in which countries interact with one another.
a. starts from a single case, then generates a hypothesis; starts from a
hypothesis, then seeks evidence
b. starts from a hypothesis, then seeks evidence; starts from a single case,
then generates a hypothesis
c. starts with a correlation; starts with a causal relationship
d. starts with a causal relationship; starts with a correlation
4. Bill and Ted are deciding what to get for lunch. Bill wants to get tacos. Ted insists
they will instead be getting pizza. Bill agrees; even though pizza is not something
, he really wants. Their argument about what to eat is an example of ________.
The outcome (pizza) is an example of ________.
a. selection bias; confirmation bias
b. correlation; causation
c. politics; power
d. inductive reasoning; deductive reasoning
5. Maria constructs a series of hypotheses that might explain why some countries
have strong networks of interest groups and civic organizations, whereas other
countries do not. Maria then gathers data to test the validity of her hypotheses.
This is an example of
a. multicausality.
b. deductive reasoning.
c. selection bias.
d. inductive reasoning.
6. Which of the following would be an example of selection bias?
a. studying revolutions by looking at cases with outcomes of revolution and
non-revolution
b. studying whether a parliamentary or presidential model leads to more
efficient outcomes
c. studying the causes of democracy by looking at democracies and seeing
what led to their formation
d. studying religiosity to see if it is correlated with postcolonial regimes
7. Endogeneity refers to the
a. problem of distinguishing cause from effect.
, b. use of methods from psychology to better understand comparative politics.
c. problem that some political questions may not have answers.
d. use of research from biology or other sciences to study human behavior.
8. A full explanation of why a country does or does not have an institutionalized
democratic system of governance would include considerations of the country’s
history, political culture, economics, and demographics. This exemplifies which
difficulty of comparative politics research?
a. small sample size
b. selection bias
c. multicausality
d. endogeneity
9. A distinct comparative approach to politics first emerged with the work of
a. Marx.
b. Hobbes.
c. Rousseau.
d. Machiavelli.
10.A major criticism of comparative politics at the turn of the twentieth century was
that it
a. relied too heavily on predictive models.
b. was too focused on postrevolutionary states.
c. employed too many quantitative methods.
d. tended to be descriptive, atheoretical, and Eurocentric.
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