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POL228
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Politics as 'who gets what, when and how' underlines the importance of ------
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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 fallacy of making unwarranted inferences from statistical data or other facts, especially when trying to establish causation results in _inference.
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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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Nigeria became a true federalism on _by the Constitution.
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The ---- states that electoral system based on single member districts tend to produce two parties.
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The theory that explains the role of political elites, and makes explanatory generalizations about their social backgrounds and political perceptions is the _.
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The exhibition of geopolitical structural imbalance is typical of _federalism.
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The following are important traditional approaches in comparative politics except -----, legalistic and institutional approaches
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Which approach introduced quantitative method of analysis in political studies?
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With the advent of behaviuoralism and the post behavioural school, gained increasing importance to the study of politics.
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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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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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The decline of the intellectual force of behaviouralism in the 1960's culminated into the - ---- in the study of politics.
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The categorization into legislation, execution and the adjudication of law is attributed to -----
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Arend Lijphart divided the parliamentary democracies into two different systems namely and
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The Nigerian federalism is traceable to the constitution of 1946.
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Logic is often associated with _.
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The philosophical approach in political science is focuced is on -----
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The mathematical manipulation of quantitative data about a large number of cases refers to _.
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The understanding of the government and political system of a country is embedded in ------
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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 ------
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Aristotle posits that corrupt types of constitutions are typical of -----
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The traditional approach embraces the ----- in explaining any political phenomenon.
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The political community is comprised of people bound together by a _division of labour
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Adam Przensorski and Henry Tenure proposed two general approaches to the comparative method namely and _.
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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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The hierarchical management of offices and agencies having certain functions and powers refers to -----
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The ----- could be encompassed within the categories of legislation, execution and the adjudication of law
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In order to gain knowledge about single cases, the approach is apt.
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The term 'politics' was first used by ----- to refer to the affairs of a affairs of ------
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The rule by the many for the many is _.
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In 1946, Nigeria was divided into three groups of North, West, and _.
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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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Skopcol's purpose of comparism was to find possible ----- in explaining the phenomenon of political revolution.
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Institutions do not exist physically apart from the --- ---
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The input – output analytical framework of the general systems theory was developed by _.
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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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Mill's Method of Similarity consists of comparing ------
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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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The Greek idea 'polis' refers to ------
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Statistical correlational studies have been critiqued on the grounds that ------
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Most Different Systems Design in comparative politics is akin to -----
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The error of explaining something in terms of one sole cause when there may possibilities of other causes refers to _.
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Countries in particular geographical region of the world, such as Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America are well suited for _design.
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The rule by many for the common good refers to a
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The Structural Functional Analysis is fundamentally concerned with the -----
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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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To capture and analyse the major political similarities and differences between countries is the focus of ---- --
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