POL228

The Nigerian federalism is
traceable to the
constitution of 1946.

In 1946, Nigeria was
divided into three groups of
North, West, and
_.

Which method of analysis is
not a scientific method even
when it is one of the basic
specific methods in
comparative research?

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

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

The exhibition of geopolitical structural
imbalance is typical of
_federalism.

Almond divided the inputs
list into four functional
requisites of: political
socialization and
recruitment, interestarticulation,
_and_.

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

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

Aristotle's famous typology
was based on two criteria
namely ----- and -----

The comprehensive study
of democracies around the
world was embarked upon
by ------

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

Arend Lijphart divided the
parliamentary democracies
into two different systems
namely
and

The three methods of
country’s study in
comparative politics include
single – country studies,
and
.

Which approach relies on
measurements and
observation rather than
theory or norm?

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

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

During the traditional
Developmental epoch the
focus of comparative
politics was on the -----

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

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

Which system established
the presidency and the
legislature as two parallel
structures
_.

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

Political Science and
natural sciences seek to ----

The familiar structures of
institutions of political
system include: interest
groups, political parties,
legislatures, executive,
bureaucracies and courts
are examples of
_.

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

The Structural Functional
Analysis is fundamentally
concerned with the -----

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

Aristotle's work, The Polity
compared -----

A crucial scientific principle
frequently violated by
comparative politics is the
principle of
_.

Politics as 'who gets what,
when and how' is attributed
to -----

In the components of
politics, the individuals who
exercise power as the
agents of the state at any
given time are referred to
as

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

The rule by the many for
the many is
_.

In which system of
government are legislative
functions seperate from
executive functions?

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 most similar systems
design strategy in
comparative research is
also known as ------

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

The major function of a
theory is
_.

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

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

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

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

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

The legislation, execution
and the adjudication of law
categorization is premised
on the assumption that -----

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

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

Michel's 'iron law of
Oligarcy' support that all
groups and organizations
develop a hierarchical
structure of authority with --
----

The two broad approaches
of political inquiry are
and
approaches

With the advent of
behaviuoralism and the
post behavioural school,
gained increasing
importance to the study of
politics.

Which scientific method is
rarely conducted in political
science?