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POL228
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The ‘master strategy’ as proposed by Grander for drawing inferences about causation in any area of study is the
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Outputs in a political system refers to -----
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The remark “when a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results” attributed to President Calvin Coolidge is a _.
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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 -----
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During the traditional Developmental epoch the focus of comparative politics was on the -----
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Dudley,and laski conceived Politics as ----- of the community in which all are personally involved.
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The decline of behaviouralism in the 1960's culminated into the news perspetive conceived as ------
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A word, term, or a label which applies to a whole class or category of ideas is a _.
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Adam Przensorski and Henry Tenure proposed two general approaches to the comparative method namely and _.
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To capture and analyse the major political similarities and differences between countries is the focus of ---- --
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Institutions do not exist physically apart from the --- ---
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Regional or area studies in comparative politics involve study of similar ----
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Political Science and natural sciences seek to ----
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The ----- could be encompassed within the categories of legislation, execution and the adjudication of law
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Aristotle adopted a _classification scheme in his analysis of 150 constitutions of the Greek City states.
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The making and implementation of binding decisions about behaviour or interaction in a society occurs within a
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The input – output analytical framework of the general systems theory was developed by _.
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In the components of politics, the individuals who exercise power as the agents of the state at any given time are referred to as
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Which scientific method is rarely conducted in political science?
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Thematic studies in Comparative politics is centred on all these 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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The following are important traditional approaches in comparative politics except -----, legalistic and institutional approaches
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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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Harold Laswell equated politics with -----
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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
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In which system of government are legislative functions seperate from executive functions?
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Arend Lijphart divided the parliamentary democracies into two different systems namely and
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In comparative politics, the comparing of very similar cases that differ only in the dependent variable refers to ------
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The ---- states that electoral system based on single member districts tend to produce two parties.
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The exhibition of geopolitical structural imbalance is typical of _federalism.
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Aristotle's work, The Polity compared -----
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Almond divided the inputs list into four functional requisites of: political socialization and recruitment, interestarticulation, _and_.
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Nigerian federalism could be said to have evolved through a process of _.
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The legislation, execution and the adjudication of law categorization is premised on the assumption that -----
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According to Aristotle, the 'constitutions' of monarchy, aristocracy, and polity are -- ---
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The ----- approach is critiqued as narrow and parochial.
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A _theory can be used to explain the crisis in the boko haram in the North or the Niger Delta area of Nigeria.
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The essence of comparing countries in comparative politics is geared towards -- ---
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The Nigerian federalism is traceable to the constitution of 1946.
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The traditional approach embraces the ----- in explaining any political phenomenon.
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The term “logic” originated from Greek word _which means the art and science of reasoning
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The ------ constitutes an existing and challenging area of concern in politics
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According to Barrington Moore's thesis revolutions by the elite result in ------
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Theda Skocpol compared the major revolutions of ----
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All but ----- constituted the philosophers of the renaissance period in the era of the rebirth or revival of Comparative Politics in Europe
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In the parliamentary system of government, the head of government is the _and the head of state being _.
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A bicameral legislature possesses two separate chambers, usually described as and _.
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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 _.
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The comprehensive study of democracies around the world was embarked upon by ------
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A Parliamentary system's two styles of two houses is called _.
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