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The grouping of similarities and differences into sets is known as
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Man by nature is a political animal is credited to ------
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In which system of authority can rules be applied judicially and administratively?
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What is the hall mark of descriptive-inductive approach
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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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What is done to bills prior their becoming laws? ------
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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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What is neither right nor wrong although more or less useful in political anlysis? ------
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The process by which the scientist forms a theory to explain observed facts” is known as ------
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Which theory can be deduced from principles before being tested? -------
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Which of these forces places constraints on what individual 'sovereign' states can independently do? ------
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The attempt to apply the Classical Pluralism to Westminster-style democracies is
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An explicit set of values that orients people in society in terms of what they can expect from government and what government should do for them and society refers to
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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 state exists to fulfill "the greatest happiness in the greatest number" was proposed by
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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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Who pioneered the structural-functionalist approach?
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Marxs position about materialism centred on the interpretation of _history
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The interactions in any society through which binding or authouritative allocations are made refers to _theory
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The support of a regime because of an emotional identification with the personality of the leader of the regime presupposes
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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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The following are the features of behaviouralism except -----
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Two of these constitute the the strands of the pursuit of happiness which Plato and Aristotle advocated for ------
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Who first used the term "political science"(Science politique)? -------
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Statements of universal uniformities that relate to all the cases of a particular phenomenon is known as -- ----
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The emphasis if empirical analysis is its concern with - -----
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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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A is a concept for understanding the framing and structing of knowledge production in the natural sciences
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The concept of political representation which originated in England was precipitated by the forceof the king by nobles to sign the
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All of the following problems necessitated the re-orientation of the study of Political Science except - ----
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The reformists in political science proposed the following except -----
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What essential feature is paramount in the analysis of constitutional and formal organizations? ------
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Who developed and popularized the principle of speration of powers?
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The exogeneous strand of the rational choice Approach explores the effects of
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Plato concieved elders as and younger men as
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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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What concepts determine the theoretical literature of political representation? ---- --
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In which country is the President chosen by the Knesset? ------
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One of the major short falls of the Marxian conception of politics is its ------
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A science of politics has been critiqued as difficult because of the imposition of human ------
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The concept of rule of law refers to ------
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How power is distributed in Western democracies is the central question of
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The quest for objectivity and neutrality in political analysis refers to ------
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Theb study of political processes with focus on rules procedures and formal organizations of political systems as well as impacts is linked to
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Who is the originator of Systems Analysis?
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The critiqued about oversimplification of assumptions is reference to
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Which of the following books philosophically did not justify the alternative reformist movement in political science? ------
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The major work of political philosophy known as a 'Theory of Justice' is associated with
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What approach is an offshoot of systems approach?
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Which arm of government considers and approves the national budget?
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The following are types of definitions in political science inquiry 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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Who is associated with the position that 'a state of nature is without civil government'?
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What predispositions to political action are determined by such factors as traditionmotivesemotions and symbols?
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Who formulated a theory of justice? ------
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Marx argued that every society is interlocked in a --- --- struggle between__in society.
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The stating of testable law like terms refer to ------
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Who developed and popularised the principle of speration of powers? -----
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The sovereignity of a state presupposes ------
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Through which political analytical method can the essence of freedom or democracy be valued? ------
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What is the possibility of imposing one's will upon the behaviour of other person'?
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No government was legitimate unless the people gave their consent to its authority through a -------
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A ----- is a normative specifications of what and how policies ought to be.
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What is neither right nor wrong although more or less useful in political anlysis?
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The focus on facts is the hallmark of the ------- approach.
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The theory which aids the understanding of a political phenomena, is regarded as ------
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The grouping of similarities and differences into sets is known 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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The right to make, administer and enforce legally binding policies and rules on its citizens by a state refers to -----
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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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All of the following are popular concepts in political science except ------
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Which doctrine of science claims that there is no way we can know what is true among competing explanations of the world? - -------
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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 movement that is against dominance for quantitative and mathematical methodology in political science is
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An inquiry that involves the emphasis of legal and formal refers to
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What are accepted bundle of meanings or characteristics associated with certain events, processes and situations? - -----
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Political Culture Orientation entail: cognitive orientationAffective Orientation and
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All of the following were pioneering personalities in the Chicago school of Political Science except ---- ---
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The ends of liberty and equality are ------
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The approach to the study of the rules, procedures and formal organizations of the political system and their impact on political practice is conceived as ---- ---
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The implication of the supremacy of the state is --- ---
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Plato concieved elders as -- ---- and younger men as ---- --
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What is a unit that may serve as an abstraction or general notion?
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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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All the following are the goals of science except ----- -
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The major work of political philosophy known as a 'Theory of Justice' is associated with ------
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Empirical analysis seeks to identify
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Which of the following factors did not precipitate the emergence of the behavioural movement? ---- ---
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According to Almond and Verba(1956) the following:feeling of patriotism or alienationstrong or weak democracy are known as _of political orientation
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Mention the two broad categories of political participants according to Karl Deutsch's typology
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The movement that is against dominance for quantitative and mathematical methodology in political science is ------
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Which approach maintains that the political sysytem is hierarchically structured?
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In which country is the President chosen by the Knesset?
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Which concept encapsulates the nature of political and administrative behaviour in Africa?
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The theory of civic culture was created by
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All the following are the goals of science except
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The subject matter of the state its evolution organization and purpose has been the bane of
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The state is sovereign because it is the ------ body within a particular territory
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Semantic analysis is also known as
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The state exists to fulfill "the greatest happiness in the greatest number" was proposed by ------
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According to David Easto politics is an output of the _system
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The concept of political representation which originated in England was precipitated by the forceof the king by nobles to sign the ------
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What gives direction to inquiry in political anlysis? - -----
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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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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 following are examples of variables except ----
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The implication of the supremacy of the state i
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The study of political science before the W.W 11 was all of the following except ------
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Karl Marx advocated for two broad classes in a society namely and
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Thomas Hobbes supported monarchical sovereignty because of his claim that it keeps society ------
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The role of theory in political analysis is to ------
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The uncovering of the laws of political behaviour and action is central to
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Ther understanding that a political system is made up of institutions/structures is associated with
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The concept of rule of law refers to
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What are done to bills prior their becoming laws?
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An inquiry that involves the emphasis of legal and formal refers to ------
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What variable impacts on the relationship between the independent and dependent variables? ----
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The theory which deals with normative specifications of what and how policies ought to be is -----
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Who argued that any valid explanation of society and government must take account of the real nature of man? ------
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The behaviourists'over enthusiastic pursuit of quantitative and scientific techniques fostered _methodism
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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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Which arm of government considers and approves the national budget? ------
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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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Which type of power is obtained when an actor influences the behaviour of others without making explicit the expected behaviour?
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According to Karl Marx, there are two broad classes in a society namely ---- and -----
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Which approach in political science is rooted in the discovery and application of moral notions in the sphere of political relations and practice? ------
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Which factors precipitated the emergence of the behavioural movement except _?
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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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How many classes did Marx argue that every society is interlocked in?
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The seperation of power which oscillates between the legislative,executive and the judicial is premise of -------
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The pattern of individual attitudes and orientations toward politics among the members of a political sysytem conceived as
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What are accepted bundle of meanings or characteristics associated with certain events processes and situations?
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State two features necessary in the pursuit of happiness as advocated by Plato and Aristotle _and
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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 quest for objectivity and neutrality in political analysis refers to
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The subject matter of the state, its evolution, organization and purpose has been the bane of -----
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THe following are variables except ------
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A political culture which explains the political involvement of citizens or lack thereof in democratic states is conceived as
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The theory which aids the understanding of a political phenomena is regarded as
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The evaluation of whether a government is fully democratic or less includes all the following except ------
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The descriptive-inductive formal-legal historicalcomparative and political value features are linked to the
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According to Plato, rulers must always ------
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What essential feature is paramount in the analysis of constitutional and formal organizations?
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In political inquiry ------- are components of theories or explanations.
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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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The right to make administer and enforce legally binding policies and rules on its citizens by a state refers to
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The empirical analysis is divided into two namely
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Which approach investigates power and control as well as analyses elite and non-elite _differentiation?
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The following books philosophically justified the alternative reformist movement in political science except
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