CH.1 ECP

Question 1

Endogeneity

Answer 1

The issue of when cause and effect are not clear

Question 2

Selection Bias

Answer 2

A focus on effects rather than causes, leads to inaccurate conclusions

Question 3

Multicausality

Answer 3

many variables interact to produce an outcome

Question 4

Freedom

Answer 4

Individual’s ability to act independently without penalties

Question 5

Equality

Answer 5

Living shared by a community, society or country

Question 6

Examples of how correlation doesn’t mean causation

Answer 6

Chewing gu

Question 7

State

Answer 7

Series of instituions that maintain a monopoly of violence over a territory

Question 8

Regime

Answer 8

Rule + norms of politics

Question 9

Government

Answer 9

Leadership that runs the state (weakest)

Question 10

3 Forms of Legitimacy

Answer 10

Charismatic (gift of grace and is persuasive)
Rational (uses rules)
Traditional (rituals)

Question 11

Centralization

Answer 11

Controlled by 1 authority
Ex: Hitler

Question 12

Decentralization

Answer 12

Power is distributed/shared
Ex:Federalism

Question 13

Advantages of Modern State

Answer 13

• encourages economic development
  -encourages technical innovation
  -domestic stability

Question 14

Consensus

Answer 14

Democratic rule

Question 15

Coercion

Answer 15

Authoritarian