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In order to gain knowledge about single cases, the approach is apt.
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A is a set of propositions and/or hypothesis that are logically related to each other.
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Theda Skocpol compared the major revolutions of ----
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Most Different Systems Design in comparative politics is akin to -----
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The hierarchical management of offices and agencies having certain functions and powers refers to -----
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The decline of behaviouralism in the 1960's culminated into the news perspetive conceived as ------
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The emphasis on facts rather than values in comparative politics is a prerogative of the -----
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Adam Przensorski and Henry Tenure proposed two general approaches to the comparative method namely and _.
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Thematic studies in Comparative politics is centred on all these except ------
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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 term 'political science' was first used by ----, a ----- political philosopher.
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Outputs in a political system refers to -----
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The study of the political structure and political behavior of two countries in comparative enquiry refers to _.
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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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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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Institutions do not exist physically apart from the --- ---
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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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Barrington Moore's thesis on revolutions in England, Russia and Japan (among others) conluded that -----
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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 primary component of a regime in every political system consist of _and
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Statistical correlational studies have been critiqued on the grounds that ------
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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 understanding of the government and political system of a country is embedded in ------
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The ------ constitutes an existing and challenging area of concern in politics
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The term 'politics' was first introduced in a book -----
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A bicameral legislature possesses two separate chambers, usually described as and _.
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The new approach that emerged after the decline of behavioural approach was aimed at ------
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With respect to resource control, the contrast between Nigerian and American federalism experience is _federalism.
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Aristotle's famous typology was based on two criteria namely ----- and -----
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The mathematical manipulation of quantitative data about a large number of cases refers to _.
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The development of ------ prompted the focus on the impact of social forces on government by political scientists
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The system of government wherein the head of government is both de facto chief executive and chief legislator refers to _.
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The input – output analytical framework of the general systems theory was developed by _.
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Legislatures with only one house are known as _.
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Aristotle as a traditional comparative philosopher was in ------
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The introduction of political science heralded the focus on the ------
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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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One of the following is NOT an approach in political science -----
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Arend Lijphart divided the parliamentary democracies into two different systems namely and
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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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With the advent of behaviuoralism and the post behavioural school, gained increasing importance to the study of politics.
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The father of comparative politic is _.
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The philosophical approach in political science is focuced is on -----
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The most similar systems design strategy in comparative research is also known as ------
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Nigeria became a true federalism on _by the Constitution.
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Dudley,and laski conceived Politics as ----- of the community in which all are personally involved.
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The proponents of the system theory identified three components for every political system namely communities, regimes ,and
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A simplified representation of reality in descriptive or abstract form refers to a _.
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In 1946, Nigeria was divided into three groups of North, West, and _.
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The inputs analyzed in a political system refers to ----
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According to Barrington Moore's thesis revolutions by the elite result in ------
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A _is useful in comparative politics when observing and analyzing variations on a theme.
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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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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 bane of systemmaintenance and regulation mode is the performance of _.
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Political Science and natural sciences seek to ----
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According to Aristotle, the 'constitutions' of monarchy, aristocracy, and polity are -- ---
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The use of neither the experimental nor the statistical method in analysis is employed in the
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Gurr's (1968) demonstration that levels of civil strife across 114 countries are positively linked to the presence of economic, political, shortterm, and long-term deprivation refers to _
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Most of the developing countries inherited the _at independence by their formal colonial administrations.
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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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What aligns with experiment in comparative approach to uncover relationships of cause and effect?
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The term 'politics' was first used by ----- to refer to the affairs of a affairs of ------
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Which political enquiry approach focuses upon philosophy, values and norms?
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In which system of government are legislative functions seperate from executive functions?
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The comparative study of law or the legal system refers to ------
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To capture and analyse the major political similarities and differences between countries is the focus of ---- --
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Almond divided the inputs list into four functional requisites of: political socialization and recruitment, interestarticulation, _and_.
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The legislation, execution and the adjudication of law categorization is premised on the assumption that -----
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Which approach introduced quantitative method of analysis in political studies?
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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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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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During the traditional Developmental epoch the focus of comparative politics was on the -----
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The goal of science of politics is rooted in political science and natural science sharing the following features except -----
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The rule by the many for the many is _.
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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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The explanation of the difference between and similarities among countries is the premise of ------
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The three methods of country’s study in comparative politics include single – country studies, and .
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Politics as 'who gets what, when and how' underlines the importance of ------
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To Aristotle, people's humanity can only be experienced through interaction with others in ---- --
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The traditional comparative government has been critiqued for being ------
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In comparative politics the focus on voting behaviours, political stability, political elite and leaders refers to
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Which method of analysis is not a scientific method even when it is one of the basic specific methods in comparative research?
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Which theory provides a broad framework for the examination of politics?
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The two broad approaches of political inquiry are and approaches
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The Greek idea 'polis' refers to ------
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There are three levels of theory in comparative analysis, namely: _, middle, and low range theories.
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The familiar structures of institutions of political system include: interest groups, political parties, legislatures, executive, bureaucracies and courts are examples of _.
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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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Who is reputed as the father of federalism?
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The comprehensive study of democracies around the world was embarked upon by ------
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The exhibition of geopolitical structural imbalance is typical of _federalism.
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Generalizations or theories which are capable of explaining and predicting political phenomena is ------
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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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Skopcol's purpose of comparism was to find possible ----- in explaining the phenomenon of political revolution.
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Logic is often associated with _.
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The Structural Functional Analysis is fundamentally concerned with the -----
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The traditional approach embraces the ----- in explaining any political phenomenon.
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The ----- approach is critiqued as narrow and parochial.
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The behavioural approach in political science is synonymous with -------
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An important study of politics is ------
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The following are important traditional approaches in comparative politics except -----, legalistic and institutional approaches
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Revolutions by the bourgeoisie according to Barrington Moore result in - ----
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David Easton's input – output analytical framework was a unique systemic approach developed for the purpose of ------
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The major function of a theory is _.
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Which approach relies on measurements and observation rather than theory or norm?
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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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The acronym RMAFC refers to _in Nigeria.
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A Parliamentary system's two styles of two houses is called _.
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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 _.
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Nigerian federalism could be said to have evolved through a process of _.
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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 term “logic” originated from Greek word _which means the art and science of reasoning
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The attainment of community goals in a political system is achieved through the social instrumentality of _institutions.
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In political science, the theory used to describe how democracies are supposed to work in principle and in practice refers to _.
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The _commission was established to address the functional inequalities in the Nigerian federal system.
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The formal systematic study of the principles of valid inference and correct reasoning is _.
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The ----- could be encompassed within the categories of legislation, execution and the adjudication of law
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Aristotle posits that corrupt types of constitutions are typical of -----
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The theory of seperation of powers is between ------
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The institutional approach to political inquiry focuses on the -----
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Politics' is the search for the good life is attributed to ----- -
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A crucial scientific principle frequently violated by comparative politics is the principle of _.
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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 essence of comparing countries in comparative politics is geared towards -- ---
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Regional or area studies in comparative politics involve study of similar ----
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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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Aristotle's observation that ‘man by nature is a political animal’ presupposes -----
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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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Which theory presupposes that a political system is often made up of several structures which are “patterns of action and resultant institutions”?
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One of the differentiating feature between natural science and political science is the__.
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Most of the developing countries inherited the _at independence by their formal colonial administrations
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Political institutions constitute the formal organs of a state which include structures
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The rule by many for the common good refers to a
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The political community is comprised of people bound together by a _division of labour
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The ---- states that electoral system based on single member districts tend to produce two parties.
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Harold Laswell equated politics with -----
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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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Comparative Politics studies the following but ---- --
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The categorization into legislation, execution and the adjudication of law is attributed 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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The understanding of politics is premised on the view of politics as ------ and ----- according to Stephen Giliat.
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Aristotle's work, The Polity compared -----
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Which scientific method is rarely conducted in political science?
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Politics as 'who gets what, when and how' is attributed to -----
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Mill's Method of Similarity consists of comparing ------
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Which system established the presidency and the legislature as two parallel structures _.
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Politics goes beyond the activity of government, political parties and politicians to include ----
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The Nigerian federalism is traceable to the constitution of 1946.
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The main critique of behaviouralism is none other than that -----
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