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POL228
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Politics goes beyond the activity of government, political parties and politicians to include ----
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Revolutions by the bourgeoisie according to Barrington Moore result in - ----
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Legislatures with only one house are known as _.
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The attainment of community goals in a political system is achieved through the social instrumentality of _institutions.
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Thematic studies in Comparative politics is centred on all these except ------
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The goal of science of politics is rooted in political science and natural science sharing the following features except -----
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Aristotle adopted a _classification scheme in his analysis of 150 constitutions of the Greek City states.
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The Structural Functional Analysis is fundamentally concerned with the -----
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The three methods of country’s study in comparative politics include single – country studies, and .
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In the components of politics, the individuals who exercise power as the agents of the state at any given time are referred to as
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The ------ constitutes an existing and challenging area of concern in politics
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The categorization into legislation, execution and the adjudication of law is attributed to -----
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The term 'politics' was first used by ----- to refer to the affairs of a affairs of ------
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One of the following is NOT an approach in political science -----
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To capture and analyse the major political similarities and differences between countries is the focus of ---- --
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The development of ------ prompted the focus on the impact of social forces on government by political scientists
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All but ----- constituted the philosophers of the renaissance period in the era of the rebirth or revival of Comparative Politics in Europe
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Politics as 'who gets what, when and how' underlines the importance of ------
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In comparative politics, the comparing of very similar cases that differ only in the dependent variable refers to ------
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The traditional comparative government has been critiqued for being ------
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Who is reputed as the father of federalism?
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Most of the developing countries inherited the _at independence by their formal colonial administrations
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A is a set of propositions and/or hypothesis that are logically related to each other.
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Institutions do not exist physically apart from the --- ---
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Almond divided the inputs list into four functional requisites of: political socialization and recruitment, interestarticulation, _and_.
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Theda Skocpol compared the major revolutions of ----
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One of the differentiating feature between natural science and political science is the__.
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The term 'political science' was first used by ----, a ----- political philosopher.
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The inputs analyzed in a political system refers to ----
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Logic is often associated with _.
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Politics' is the search for the good life is attributed to ----- -
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To say “Nigerians are not patriotic when in fact only some Nigerians may be and not all” in political argumentation is to have committed the error of fallacy of
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Gurr's (1968) demonstration that levels of civil strife across 114 countries are positively linked to the presence of economic, political, shortterm, and long-term deprivation refers to _
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The bane of systemmaintenance and regulation mode is the performance of _.
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The essence of comparing countries in comparative politics is geared towards -- ---
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The hierarchical management of offices and agencies having certain functions and powers refers to -----
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A Parliamentary system's two styles of two houses is called _.
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The _commission was established to address the functional inequalities in the Nigerian federal system.
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The acronym RMAFC refers to _in Nigeria.
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The fallacy of making unwarranted inferences from statistical data or other facts, especially when trying to establish causation results in _inference.
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Which method of analysis is not a scientific method even when it is one of the basic specific methods in comparative research?
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The comprehensive study of democracies around the world was embarked upon by ------
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The traditional approach embraces the ----- in explaining any political phenomenon.
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What aligns with experiment in comparative approach to uncover relationships of cause and effect?
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Nigeria became a true federalism on _by the Constitution.
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The ‘master strategy’ as proposed by Grander for drawing inferences about causation in any area of study is the
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The introduction of political science heralded the focus on the ------
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The explanation of the difference between and similarities among countries is the premise of ------
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Which scientific method is rarely conducted in political science?
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In 1946, Nigeria was divided into three groups of North, West, and _.
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