POL228

The term 'politics' was first
used by ----- to refer to the
affairs of a affairs of ------

The ‘master strategy’ as
proposed by Grander for
drawing inferences about
causation in any area of
study is the

Institutions do not exist
physically apart from the ---
---

The ----- approach is
critiqued as narrow and
parochial.

The
_commission was
established to address the
functional inequalities in the
Nigerian federal system.

The Greek idea 'polis'
refers to ------

Aristotle posits that corrupt
types of constitutions are
typical of -----

The formal systematic
study of the principles of
valid inference and correct
reasoning is
_.

Qualitative comparison of
many counties is more
difficult than quantitative
comparison as evidenced in
Finer’s (1997) attempt to
compare
_types over 5,000 years.

The method of dividing
governmental legislative
powers so that general
(central) and regional
(component) governments
are each within a sphere,
coordinate and independent
refers to
_.

Comparative Politics
studies the following but ----
--

Dudley,and laski conceived
Politics as ----- of the
community in which all are
personally involved.

Thematic studies in
Comparative politics is
centred on all these except
------

Legislatures with only one
house are known as
_.

A Parliamentary system's
two styles of two houses is
called
_.

The theory of seperation of
powers is between ------

One of the following is NOT
an approach in political
science -----

The development of ------
prompted the focus on the
impact of social forces on
government by political
scientists

The new approach that
emerged after the decline
of behavioural approach
was aimed at ------

The ------ constitutes an
existing and challenging
area of concern in politics

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

Political Science and
natural sciences seek to ----

Which scientific method is
rarely conducted in political
science?

Politics' is the search for the
good life is attributed to -----
-

One of the differentiating
feature between natural
science and political
science is the__.

The following are important
traditional approaches in
comparative politics except
-----, legalistic and
institutional approaches

What aligns with
experiment in comparative
approach to uncover
relationships of cause and
effect?

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 -----

The traditional approach
embraces the ----- in
explaining any political
phenomenon.

The introduction of political
science heralded the focus
on the ------

According to Aristotle, the
'constitutions' of monarchy,
aristocracy, and polity are --
---

Most of the developing
countries inherited the
_at independence by their
formal colonial
administrations

David Easton's input –
output analytical framework
was a unique systemic
approach developed for the
purpose of ------

The comparative study of
law or the legal system
refers to ------

The ----- could be
encompassed within the
categories of legislation,
execution and the
adjudication of law

Skopcol's purpose of
comparism was to find
possible ----- in explaining
the phenomenon of political
revolution.

Which political enquiry
approach focuses upon
philosophy, values and
norms?

The major function of a
theory is
_.

The ---- states that electoral
system based on single
member districts tend to
produce two parties.

The two broad approaches
of political inquiry are
and
approaches

The use of neither the
experimental nor the
statistical method in
analysis is employed in the

In the parliamentary system
of government, the head of
government is the
_and the head of state
being
_.

The emphasis on facts
rather than values in
comparative politics is a
prerogative of the -----

Politics goes beyond the
activity of government,
political parties and
politicians to include ----

The goal of science of
politics is rooted in political
science and natural science
sharing the following
features except -----

Mill's Method of Similarity
consists of comparing ------

Outputs in a political
system refers to -----

All but ----- constituted the
philosophers of the
renaissance period in the
era of the rebirth or revival
of Comparative Politics in
Europe

An important study of
politics is ------

The input – output
analytical framework of the
general systems theory was
developed by
_.