Political science 2200 Questions with complete solution
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Political science 2200 Questions with complete solution
Politics is defined in our text 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 ...
Political science 2200 Questions with
complete solution
Politics is defined in our text 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:
Answer D - correct answer ✔a: the difficulty in controlling variables
b: a limited number of comparable cases
c: difficulties in gathering information across cases
D: all of the above
which of the following would be an example of selection bias? - correct
answer ✔only studying material that is consistent with your political ideology
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 ✔was descriptive, rather than explanatory
,modernization theory can be defined as the view that? - correct answer ✔as
societies develop, they will become capitalist democracies
the move toward a more scientific approach to political science and
comparative politics began? - correct answer ✔following the cold war
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
patter 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
✔a smaller state
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
, regimes are defined as? - correct answer ✔the basic rules and norms of
politics
which of the following is usually weakly institutionalized? - correct answer
✔the government
for how long have states been the dominant form of political organization? -
correct answer ✔the past few centuries
the first emergence of human specialization and inequality is tied to? - correct
answer ✔domesticated agriculture and sedentary living
one major debate on the origins of political organization deals with whether
early political groups? - correct answer ✔developed through coercion or
consensus
recent research suggests that the rise of political organization came about
because? - correct answer ✔Pre-state societies were extremely violent
the development of the modern state in Europe was encouraged by? - correct
answer ✔constant warfare during the dark ages
traditional legitimacy rests on? - correct answer ✔habits and customs
modern states are built primarily on what form of legitimacy? - correct answer
✔rational-legal
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