A challenge to political scientists that occurs when they focus on an area because of convenience of travel or knowledge of language and not others'.
What is selection bias?
100
The struggle in any group for power that will give one or more persons the ability to make decisions for the larger group.
What is politics?
100
Organizations that maintain a monopoly of violence over a territory.
What is a state?
100
The norms and rules regarding individual freedoms and collective equality, the locus of power, and the use of that power.
What are political regimes?
100
They define what is possible in political life by laying out the rules and structures of how politics operates; they embody the norms or values unique to any given country.
What are institutions?
200
Difficulty in separating causes and effects.
What is endogeneity?
200
The ability to influence others or impose one's will on them.
What is power?
200
The leadership or elite that administers the state.
What is government?
200
The guiding ideal of politics is a balance between ___ and ___.
What are freedom and equality?
300
The era following this global event lead to a growth in the comparative method.
What is WWII?
300
The study and comparison of domestic politics across countries.
What is comparative politics?
300
The extent to which a state's authority is regarded as right and proper.
What is legitimacy?
300
Allowing the high court to decide questions that do not arise from legal cases, sometimes even allowing it to make judgements on legislation that has not yet been enacted.
What is abstract review?
300
Members are brought into a beneficial relationship with the government and the state.
What is co-optation?
400
The study of rules and the games by which politics is played and how humans act on their preferences.
What is Game Theory (rational choice)?
400
When one can use case studies to generate a hypothesis.
What is iductive reasoning?
400
Power is concentrated in the national capitol (London, for example), allocating little decision-making power to regions or local authorities.
What are unitary states?
400
Has an executive head of government who is chosen from the legislature.
What is a parliamentary form of government?
400
Comprises the organizations outside the state that help people define and advance their own interests.
What is civil society?
500
Depends upon the study of specific cases as well and the interpretation of data from several indicies, such as:
What are GDP, HDI, Gini, PPP, etc.
500
When one can use research that works from a hypothesis and tests within this data to establish a causal relationship develop a theory.
What is deductive reasoning?
500
Handing down of power to regions and localities (Scotland, for example).
What is devolution?
500
In multimember districts this type of representation encourages greater participation by smaller, less powerful political groups.
What is proportional representation?
500
Specific attributes that make one group culturally different from others and often create cleavages in society.