Comparative Politics

In which of the following ways does a government built primarily on charismatic legitimacy differ from one based on traditional legitimacy?

Charismatic legitimacy would likely be much shorter-lived.

The shorthand term for the combination of regime, state, and government is:

Country

Which of the following can be said about the concept of a regime?

Regimes form the machinery of politics that generate policy.

Which of the following can be said about the relationships among states, regimes, and governments?

States are more institutionalized than governments.

Which of the following might be a characteristic of a state with low autonomy?

a limited ability to disobey the public

Political scientists, based on the work of Max Weber, define the state as:

an organization that maintains a monopoly of violence over a territory.

Modernization theory can be defined as the view that:

as societies develop, they will become capitalist democracies

To a comparativist, which would be of more value: discovery of a correlation or discovery of a causal relationship? Why?

causal relationship, because it describes a more concrete, specific relationship between two variables

Which of the following forms of research or data would more likely be used by a quantitative research study than by a qualitative research study?

economic data

An institution can be defined as any:

organization or activity that is self-perpetuating and valued for its own sake.

Modern states are built primarily on what form of legitimacy?

rational-legal

Asymmetric federalism refers to a system in which power is divided unevenly between:

regional bodies.

In case study research, one problem that can emerge is the choosing of only cases that match the expected results of the research question, or what is known as:

selection bias.

Sovereignty is defined as the ability of:

states to carry out actions or policies within a territory independent of external actors or internal rivals.

Politics is defined in the text as the:

struggle in any group for the power to make decisions for the larger group.

Which of the following could be considered a major challenge faced by political scientists in their use of the comparative method?

the difficulty in controlling variables

Government can be defined as:

the leadership that runs the state.

What is inductive reasoning?

the means by which we go from studying a case to generating a hypothesis

Endogeneity refers to:

the problem of distinguishing cause from effect.

Which of the following lists Max Weber's three forms of political legitimacy?

traditional, charismatic, and rational-legal

A major criticism of comparative politics at the turn of the twentieth century was that it:

was descriptive rather than explanatory.