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1
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Internal = ?

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Country

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2
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External Analysis = ?

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System

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3
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What is comparative politics?

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The study and comparison of domestic politics across countries

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The study of the struggle for power across countries

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Comparative politics

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5
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Why is comparative politics important?

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In order to separate ideals from objective concepts.

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What is politics?

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Struggle in any group for power that will give a person or people the ability to make decisions for the larger group

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Where can politics be found?

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Anywhere there is an organization

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What is the struggle for authority to make decisions that will affect the public as a whole?

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Politics

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9
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What are 4 recent events that have shaken world politics?

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  • Collapse of communism
  • Globalization
  • Religion as a political force
  • Challenges to severeignty
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10
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How do you make sense of change?

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With a thorough study of comparative politics

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What 3 things do you look at when studying comparative politics?

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  • Analytical concepts
  • Methods
  • Ideals
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12
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What are theories that guide research known as?

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Analytical concepts

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13
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What are ways to study and test theories?

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Methods

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14
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What are known as the values and beliefs about preferred outcomes?

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Ideals

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15
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What does the comparative method mean?

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Drawing comparisons across countries

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What are the means by which we go from studying a case to generating a hypothesis known as?

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Inductive reasoning and the single-case approach

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What is it known as when you begin with a hypothesis and then seek out certain cases for evidence?

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Deductive reasoning and the comparative approach

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18
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True or False: Correlation does not mean causation?

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True

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When does it mean when there’s an apparent association that exists between certain factors or variables?

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Correlation

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True or false: An apparent relationship between the two doesn’t mean that one is the cause and the other is the effect

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True

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The following are all known as what?
- Difficult to control variables
- Limited # of cases
Barriers to conducting research
- Selection bias can skew research and results
- Endogeneity
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Limits of Comparative method

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22
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What is known as “the motor of history”

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Endogeneity

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23
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Who did the first comparative studies begin with?

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Aristotle

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24
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What did Aristotle like to study?

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Different constitutions of Greek city-states

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What does empirical mean?

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That it’s observable and verifiable

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26
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Who are some of the leading thinkers that come to mind when studying Comparative Politics?

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  • Machiavelli
  • Thomas Hobbes
  • John Locke
  • Jean-Jacque Rousseau
  • Karl Marx
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27
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Who was it that sought to compare and evaluate merits of different political systems?

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Machiavelli (1469-1527)

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28
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Who developed the “social contract” theory?

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Jean-Jacque Rousseau

29
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Who developed a theory of economic and political development and revolutionary change?

30
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By the turn of the 20th century, comparative politics was what?

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Descriptive and static

31
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What two things were not well understood?

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Change and causality

32
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What did University researchers sought out to do?

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To create theories of human behavior in many fields

33
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Limits of comparative politics were underscored by what?

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World Wars I and II

34
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What were 4 things that resulted from the Cold War?

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  • Fear of Soviet Union
  • De-colonization
  • Belief that comparative politics could help understand Soviet threat
  • Enthusiasm for scientific progress (ex, computers/ tech innovation)
35
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What theory articulates how countries modernize or fail to do so?

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Modernization Theory

36
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True or false: Modernization Theory hopes to apply to American foreign policy

37
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Modernization Theory sought out to spread what two things?

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Capitalism and democracy

38
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The shift from studying institutions to studying individual political behavior derives from what theory?

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Modernization Theory

39
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What is the new approach to the study of comparative politics?

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Behavioralism

40
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Which approach rejects qualitative approaches?

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Behavioralism

41
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This approach is centered around behavior of individuals, not political structures

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Behavioralism

42
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Which approach favors greater use of statistics and statistical data gathering?

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Behavioralism

43
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Which approach hopes for a “grand theory” of politics?

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Behavioralism

44
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True or False: No real breakthroughs in comparative politics-no “grand theory” by the 1960s?

45
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Expectations of political modernization were confounded by what?

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Real events in the world

46
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What’s one of the arguments that critics charge behavioralism with?

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That it emphasizes jargon over knowledge

47
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True or false: Critics charge modernization theory with bias, expecting that capitalism and democracy would easily fit in other countries.

48
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What are the two best methods for gathering research?

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Quantitative method and Qualitative method

49
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Which method requires gathering numerical data for statistical analysis? ex. Look for patterns, test ideas

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Quantitative method

50
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What method requires carrying out intensive studies of cases through archival research and interviews?

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Qualitative method

51
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One benefit of the qualitative method?

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Intensive study cases to acquire a deeper grasp of political context

52
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One drawback of the qualitative method?

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Result is often only description rather than comparative analysis

53
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Three benefits of the Quantitative method?

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  • Can look at multiple cases
  • Can control variables more easily
  • More “scientific”
54
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Two Drawbacks of the Quantitative method?

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  • Data may be skewed or incomplete

- Research driven by what data is available rather than vice versa?

55
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Which three world events brought about momentous changes?

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  • Religion re-emerged as a political force
  • Rapid development in Asia
  • Collapse of communism
56
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Defined as organizations or patterns of activity that are self-perpetuating and valued for their own sake. What are these organizations called?

A

Political Institutions

57
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What is the basic content of politics?

A

Freedom and equality

58
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What is freedom?

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The ability of an individual to act independently

59
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Not having free of restriction or punishment by state or non state actors refers to what?

60
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Three examples of Freedom?

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  • Free speech
  • Free assembly
  • Right to bear arms
61
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Shared economic standard within community, society, or country refers to what?

62
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Politics is a balance between what two things?

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Freedom and equality

63
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A set of institutions that seeks to wield the majority of force within a territory, establishing order and deterring challengers from the inside out refers to what?

64
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The ability to carry out actions independently of internal/external challengers refers to what?

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Sovereignty

65
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Who defined the state as a monopoly of violence over a given territory?

66
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The fundamental rules and norms of politics are defined as what?

67
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True or false: regimes are easily changed?

68
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What sorts of events would likely lead to “regime change”

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Revolutions or crises, removal by war, etc.

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