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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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Michel's 'iron law of Oligarcy' support that all groups and organizations develop a hierarchical structure of authority with -- ----
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A simplified representation of reality in descriptive or abstract form refers to a _.
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One of the following is NOT an approach in political science -----
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The ----- could be encompassed within the categories of legislation, execution and the adjudication of law
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Comparative Politics studies the following but ---- --
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The rule by the many for the many is _.
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Harold Laswell equated politics with -----
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The ---- states that electoral system based on single member districts tend to produce two parties.
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A bicameral legislature possesses two separate chambers, usually described as and _.
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The term 'politics' was first used by ----- to refer to the affairs of a affairs of ------
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Logic is often associated with _.
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The understanding of politics is premised on the view of politics as ------ and ----- according to Stephen Giliat.
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In political science, the theory used to describe how democracies are supposed to work in principle and in practice refers to _.
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Aristotle adopted a _classification scheme in his analysis of 150 constitutions of the Greek City states.
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Which scientific method is rarely conducted in political science?
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The political community is comprised of people bound together by a _division of labour
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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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Statistical correlational studies have been critiqued on the grounds that ------
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In order to gain knowledge about single cases, the approach is apt.
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The Nigerian federalism is traceable to the constitution of 1946.
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The ------ constitutes an existing and challenging area of concern in politics
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Politics' is the search for the good life is attributed to ----- -
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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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The Structural Functional Analysis is fundamentally concerned with the -----
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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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Revolutions by the bourgeoisie according to Barrington Moore result in - ----
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The major function of a theory is _.
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Skopcol's purpose of comparism was to find possible ----- in explaining the phenomenon of political revolution.
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Politics as 'who gets what, when and how' is attributed to -----
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One of the differentiating feature between natural science and political science is the__.
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In the parliamentary system of government, the head of government is the _and the head of state being _.
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With the advent of behaviuoralism and the post behavioural school, gained increasing importance to the study of politics.
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Who is reputed as the father of federalism?
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Politics as 'who gets what, when and how' underlines the importance of ------
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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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Adam Przensorski and Henry Tenure proposed two general approaches to the comparative method namely and _.
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With respect to resource control, the contrast between Nigerian and American federalism experience is _federalism.
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Thematic studies in Comparative politics is centred on all these except ------
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The introduction of political science heralded the focus on the ------
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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 essence of comparing countries in comparative politics is geared towards -- ---
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The decline of the intellectual force of behaviouralism in the 1960's culminated into the - ---- in the study of politics.
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Nigeria became a true federalism on _by the Constitution.
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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 fallacy of making unwarranted inferences from statistical data or other facts, especially when trying to establish causation results in _inference.
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The behavioural approach in political science is synonymous with -------
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Nigerian federalism could be said to have evolved through a process of _.
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The categorization into legislation, execution and the adjudication of law is attributed to -----
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The theory that explains the role of political elites, and makes explanatory generalizations about their social backgrounds and political perceptions is the _.
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