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POL214
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The study of political science before the W.W 11 was all of the following except ------
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The behaviourists'over enthusiastic pursuit of quantitative and scientific techniques fostered _methodism
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Karl Marx advocated for two broad classes in a society namely and
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According to David Easto politics is an output of the _system
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Which concept encapsulates the nature of political and administrative behaviour in Africa?
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Political Culture Orientation entail: cognitive orientationAffective Orientation and
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The resort to force and violence and military conflict as politics by other means was propounded by the -------
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posited that the state has a 'monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force in enforcing its order within a given territorial area'
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What basis has political science been said to be a discipline in a state of a flux? ------
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The descriptive-inductive formal-legal historicalcomparative and political value features are linked to the
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Which form of government does the executive who holds an office for a fixed term can be removed from office through a process of impeachment? -------
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This posited that the state has a 'monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force in enforcing its order within a given territorial area': -------
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The major work of political philosophy known as a 'Theory of Justice' is associated with
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Which approach imposes standards of scientific rigor on not only empirical evidence but theory building in contrast to the legalistic and formal approach?
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What is the transmission of the political culture of a group or the society to successive members of same called?
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One of the major short falls of the Marxian conception of politics is its ------
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What is the possibility of imposing one's will upon the behaviour of other person'?
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The process by which the scientist forms a theory to explain the observed facts is known as
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Marx argued that every society is interlocked in a --- --- struggle between__in society.
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Who is the originator of Systems Analysis?
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The state is sovereign because it is the ------ body within a particular territory
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A ----- is a normative specifications of what and how policies ought to be.
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The understanding of the framing and structing of knowledge production in the natural sciences is lnown as ------
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The ends of liberty and equality are ------
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Which form of government does the executive hold office for a fixed term and can be removed from office through a process of impeachment?
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The process by which the scientist forms a theory to explain observed facts” is known as ------
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The stating of testable law like terms refer to ------
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The interactions in any society through which binding or authouritative allocations are made refers to _theory
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Who formulated a theory of justice? ------
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Which approach to the study of politics is concerned with the discovery and application of moral notions in political relations and practice?
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Which type of power is obtained when an actor influences the behaviour of others without making explicit the expected behaviour?
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Who pioneered the structural-functionalist approach?
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The reformists in political science proposed the following except -----
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The construction of statements by researchers for the purpose of testing whether or not a certain relationship exists between two phenomenon refers to - -----
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The conception that " … in a war of all against all, life is hardly worth living and was 'short, brutish, nasty and poor is associated with ------
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Thomas Hobbes supported monarchical sovereignty because of his claim that it keeps society ------
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The focus on facts is the hallmark of the ------- approach.
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The following are the features of behaviouralism except -----
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The devise of certain objective indices of a concept according to which they can be defined in such a way that the meaning is not distorted is concieved as
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The query for the rigorous scientific approach to the study of political phenomena is associated to
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What did Marx claim was the foundation upon which the superstructure of culture law and government is erected?
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The implication of the supremacy of the state is --- ---
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How power is distributed in Western democracies is the central question of
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Which approach in political science focuses on division of society into classes and how this social stratification determines social conflict and social change?
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The seperation of power which oscillates between the legislative,executive and the judicial is premise of -------
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An inquiry that involves the emphasis of legal and formal refers to ------
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All of the following were pioneering personalities in the Chicago school of Political Science except ---- ---
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In which system of authority can rules be applied judicially and administratively?
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What is neither right nor wrong although more or less useful in political anlysis? ------
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The subject matter of the state, its evolution, organization and purpose has been the bane of -----
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