Systematic study and comparison of domestic political systems
What is comparative politics!
100
Integrated set of hypotheses, assumptions and facts
What is theory?
100
A theory according to which as societies develop they become capitalist democracies, converging around a set of shared values and characteristics.
What is modernization theory?
100
Separated the study of politics and philosophy. Author of "The Politics."
Who is Aristotle?
100
The largest country in the world in terms of territory
What is Russia/Federal Republic of Russia?
200
This area of research looks at relationships between and not within states
What is International Relations
200
Variables that we want to explain
What are dependent variables?
200
The new trend in the study of comparative politics in 1950s and 1960s that emphasized explanation and prediction based on observations of political behavior; ideally leading to a "grand theory" of political behavior and modernization generalizable across countries
What is behavioralism?
200
Often considered the first modern political scientist. The author of "The Prince."
Who was Niccolo Machiavelli?
200
The country with largest population in the world
What is China?
300
Who gets what, when and how
What is politics?
300
The problem of distinguishing the cause and effect (the egg and chicken debate) often present in political science, i.e. does democracy create peace or is democracy possible because peace exists?
What is endogeneity?
300
Comparative methodology based on interviews, observations, and documentary research. Usually involving few cases, narrow focus and in-depth investigation
What is qualitative method?
300
Predicted the eventual collapse of capitalism and democracy and the raise of the Proletariat. The author of "Das Kapital."
Who was Karl Marx?
300
The country with second largest territory?
What is Canada?
400
Being able to make someone do something that they would not have done otherwise
What is power?
400
Study of one country in comparative politics
What is single-country study
400
Comparative method involving wide use of cases, use of statistical analysis and mathematical models. Mostly based on deductive reasoning.
What is quantitative method?
400
Develope the notion of "social contract." Though of the life of a human in the state of nature as "nasty, brutish, and short."
The author of "The Leviathan"
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
400
An island-based established European democracy where Queen still has to approve the acts of the parliament.
What is Great Britain/UK/England?
500
The type of reasoning where we start with a puzzle and generating hypotheses about the cause and effect to test against the number of cases
What is deductive reasoning?
500
Description, Explanation, Prediction
What are goals of comparative politics?
500
The method emphasizing breadth over depth of the study
A. quantitative
or
B. qualitative
What is quantitative method?
500
Argued about citizens' rights as inalienable (civil rights and freedoms). Wrote "The Social Contract"
Who was Jean-Jacues Rousseau
500
The country in the European Union which currently has the most say in terms of monetary policy of the EU and its states. One of the original EU funding countries.