POL228

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 objective and rationall
judgement about political
system and the dispeling of
the 'feeling of superiority of
one country over another' is
the bane of ------

Aristotle as a traditional
comparative philosopher
was in ------

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

The attainment of
community goals in a
political system is achieved
through the social
instrumentality of
_institutions.

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

The institutional approach
to political inquiry focuses
on the -----

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
_.

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

The inputs analyzed in a
political system refers to ----

The behavioural approach
in political science is
synonymous with -------

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

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

Regional or area studies in
comparative politics involve
study of similar ----

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

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

The political community is
comprised of people bound
together by a
_division of labour

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

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

Politics as 'who gets what,
when and how' underlines
the importance of ------

Which scientific method is
rarely conducted in political
science?

A typical comparative
studies design which
identifies a particular
outcome that is to be
explained such as
revolutions, military coups,
transition to democracy, or
“economic miracle “in newly
industrialized countries
refers to
_.

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

Harold Laswell equated
politics with -----

The understanding of
politics is premised on the
view of politics as ------ and
----- according to Stephen
Giliat.

In order to gain knowledge
about single cases, the
approach is apt.

The traditional comparative
government has been
critiqued for being ------

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

The fallacy of making
unwarranted inferences
from statistical data or other
facts, especially when
trying to establish causation
results in
_inference.

A
_is useful in comparative
politics when observing and
analyzing variations on a
theme.

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

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

The major function of a
theory is
_.

Legislatures with only one
house are known as
_.

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

The primary component of
a regime in every political
system consist of
_and

Aristotle adopted a
_classification scheme in
his analysis of 150
constitutions of the Greek
City states.

The mathematical
manipulation of quantitative
data about a large number
of cases refers to
_.

A simplified representation
of reality in descriptive or
abstract form refers to a
_.

Barrington Moore's thesis
on revolutions in England,
Russia and Japan (among
others) conluded that -----

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

The proponents of the
system theory identified
three components for every
political system namely
communities, regimes ,and

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

The term 'politics' was first
introduced in a book -----

The study of the political
structure and political
behavior of two countries in
comparative enquiry refers
to
_.

Logic is often associated
with
_.

Statistical correlational
studies have been critiqued
on the grounds that ------

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

A word, term, or a label
which applies to a whole
class or category of ideas is
a
_.