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POL228
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With respect to resource control, the contrast between Nigerian and American federalism experience is _federalism.
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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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The Greek idea 'polis' refers to ------
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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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Mill's Method of Similarity consists of comparing ------
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One of the following is NOT an approach in political science -----
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The ---- states that electoral system based on single member districts tend to produce two parties.
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Institutions do not exist physically apart from the --- ---
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The understanding of the government and political system of a country is embedded in ------
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According to Barrington Moore's thesis revolutions by the elite result in ------
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The decline of behaviouralism in the 1960's culminated into the news perspetive conceived as ------
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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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Outputs in a political system refers to -----
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Politics goes beyond the activity of government, political parties and politicians to include ----
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The system of government wherein the head of government is both de facto chief executive and chief legislator refers to _.
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In which system of government are legislative functions seperate from executive functions?
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Most of the developing countries inherited the _at independence by their formal colonial administrations
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Nigerian federalism could be said to have evolved through a process of _.
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A simplified representation of reality in descriptive or abstract form refers to a _.
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The formal systematic study of the principles of valid inference and correct reasoning is _.
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To Aristotle, people's humanity can only be experienced through interaction with others in ---- --
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Skopcol's purpose of comparism was to find possible ----- in explaining the phenomenon of political revolution.
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The traditional approach embraces the ----- in explaining any political phenomenon.
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The first major crossnational survey of attitudes aimed at determining the role of political culture in maintaining the stability of democratic regimes is associated with -----
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Politics as 'who gets what, when and how' underlines the importance of ------
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To capture and analyse the major political similarities and differences between countries is the focus of ---- --
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A word, term, or a label which applies to a whole class or category of ideas is a _.
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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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Comparative Politics studies the following but ---- --
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A bicameral legislature possesses two separate chambers, usually described as and _.
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The use of neither the experimental nor the statistical method in analysis is employed in the
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Richard Jesen's aversion that the motto of his generation of political scientists was ‘history is past politics and politics present history’ portrayed political science as ------
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The ----- could be encompassed within the categories of legislation, execution and the adjudication of law
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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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Aristotle adopted a _classification scheme in his analysis of 150 constitutions of the Greek City states.
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Aristotle's observation that ‘man by nature is a political animal’ presupposes -----
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The three methods of country’s study in comparative politics include single – country studies, and .
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The major function of a theory is _.
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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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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 essence of comparing countries in comparative politics is geared towards -- ---
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Which approach relies on measurements and observation rather than theory or norm?
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Dudley,and laski conceived Politics as ----- of the community in which all are personally involved.
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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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David Easton's input – output analytical framework was a unique systemic approach developed for the purpose of ------
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Countries in particular geographical region of the world, such as Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America are well suited for _design.
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Aristotle's work, The Polity compared -----
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What aligns with experiment in comparative approach to uncover relationships of cause and effect?
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