UVU POLS 2200 final Question and answers already passed
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UVU POLS 2200 final Question and answers already passed
Politics is defined as - correct answer The struggle in any group for the power to make decisions for the larger group
What is inductive reasoning? - correct answer The means by which we go from studying a single case to generating ...
UVU POLS 2200 final Question and
answers already passed
Politics is defined as - correct answer ✔The struggle in any group for the
power to make decisions for the larger group
What is inductive reasoning? - correct answer ✔The means by which we go
from studying a single case to generating a hypothesis
Political scientists are limited in their use of the comparative method by -
correct answer ✔The difficulty in controlling variables, a limited number of
comparable cases, difficulties in gathering information across cases
Which of the following would be an example of selection bias - correct answer
✔Studying revolution by looking at case studies of revolution only
Endogeneity refers to - correct answer ✔Determining cause versus effect
The earliest political thinker who practiced a form of comparative analysis was
- correct answer ✔Aristotle
A true comparative approach to politics only emerges with the work of -
correct answer ✔Machiavelli
A great criticism of comparative politics in the early twentieth century was that
it - correct answer ✔Focused too strongly on religious explanations
, Modernization theory can be defined as the view that - correct answer
✔Each country and region will modernize in a different way, each with a
different result
The move toward a more scientific approach to political science and
comparative politics began - correct answer ✔Following WW2
The use of approaches like game theory rest on the assumption that humans
are - correct answer ✔Rational
The collapse of communism is important for comparative politics because -
correct answer ✔Scholars did not anticipate it, calling their work to date into
question
An institution can be defined as any - correct answer ✔Organization or
pattern of activity that is self perpetuating and valued for its own sake
The substance of politics is inevitably bound up in the struggle between -
correct answer ✔Individual freedom and collective equality
A greater focus on individual freedom is associated with - correct answer
✔Civic responsibility
Political scientists, based on the work of max weber, define states as - correct
answer ✔An organization that maintains a monopoly of violence over a
territory
Sovereignty is defined as the ability of - correct answer ✔States to carry out
actions or policy independent of outside actors or internal rivals
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