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POL228
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According to Aristotle, the 'constitutions' of monarchy, aristocracy, and polity are -- ---
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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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To capture and analyse the major political similarities and differences between countries is the focus of ---- --
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The Nigerian federalism is traceable to the constitution of 1946.
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The Greek idea 'polis' refers to ------
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The development of ------ prompted the focus on the impact of social forces on government by political scientists
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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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Which approach relies on measurements and observation rather than theory or norm?
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Thematic studies in Comparative politics is centred on all these except ------
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The legislation, execution and the adjudication of law categorization is premised on the assumption that -----
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A bicameral legislature possesses two separate chambers, usually described as and _.
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The term 'political science' was first used by ----, a ----- political philosopher.
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The political community is comprised of people bound together by a _division of labour
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Legislatures with only one house are known as _.
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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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Michel's 'iron law of Oligarcy' support that all groups and organizations develop a hierarchical structure of authority with -- ----
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Aristotle's famous typology was based on two criteria namely ----- and -----
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Barrington Moore's thesis on revolutions in England, Russia and Japan (among others) conluded that -----
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With respect to resource control, the contrast between Nigerian and American federalism experience is _federalism.
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The essence of comparing countries in comparative politics is geared towards -- ---
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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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Theda Skocpol compared the major revolutions of ----
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The study of the political structure and political behavior of two countries in comparative enquiry refers to _.
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The formal systematic study of the principles of valid inference and correct reasoning is _.
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The philosophical approach in political science is focuced is on -----
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The theory that enables scholars to test on a macro level the micro level empirical generalizations as well as integrate existing body of knowledge is known as _
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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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The understanding of politics is premised on the view of politics as ------ and ----- according to Stephen Giliat.
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Institutions do not exist physically apart from the --- ---
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The bane of systemmaintenance and regulation mode is the performance of _.
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A crucial scientific principle frequently violated by comparative politics is the principle of _.
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Politics as 'who gets what, when and how' underlines the importance of ------
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Which political enquiry approach focuses upon philosophy, values and norms?
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One of the differentiating feature between natural science and political science is the__.
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Aristotle posits that corrupt types of constitutions are typical of -----
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Almond divided the inputs list into four functional requisites of: political socialization and recruitment, interestarticulation, _and_.
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Generalizations or theories which are capable of explaining and predicting political phenomena is ------
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Most Different Systems Design in comparative politics is akin to -----
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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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Which theory provides a broad framework for the examination of politics?
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One of the following is NOT an approach in political science -----
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Nigerian federalism could be said to have evolved through a process of _.
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Arend Lijphart divided the parliamentary democracies into two different systems namely and
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The mathematical manipulation of quantitative data about a large number of cases refers to _.
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Political institutions constitute the formal organs of a state which include structures
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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.
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The decline of behaviouralism in the 1960's culminated into the news perspetive conceived as ------
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Politics goes beyond the activity of government, political parties and politicians to include ----
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In which system of government are legislative functions seperate from executive functions?
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