POL228

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

The acronym RMAFC
refers to
_in Nigeria.

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

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

The bane of systemmaintenance and regulation
mode is the performance of
_.

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

Theda Skocpol compared
the major revolutions of ----

With respect to resource
control, the contrast
between Nigerian and
American federalism
experience is
_federalism.

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

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

Political Science and
natural sciences seek to ----

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

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

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 ------

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

The categorization into
legislation, execution and
the adjudication of law is
attributed to -----

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

Adam Przensorski and
Henry Tenure proposed two
general approaches to the
comparative method
namely
and
_.

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

The rule by the many for
the many is
_.

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

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

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

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

Harold Laswell equated
politics with -----

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

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

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

The term “logic” originated
from Greek word
_which means the art and
science of reasoning

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

The two broad approaches
of political inquiry are
and
approaches

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
_.

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

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

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

The making and
implementation of binding
decisions about behaviour
or interaction in a society
occurs within a

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

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

In comparative politics, the
comparing of very similar
cases that differ only in the
dependent variable refers
to ------

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Nigerian federalism is
traceable to the
constitution of 1946.

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

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

To capture and analyse the
major political similarities
and differences between
countries is the focus of ----
--