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.
