Practice Questions Final Exam 2023

1 Chapter 1 1. An institution can be defined as________ 2. Politics is defined in the text as ________ 3. What are some major challenge faced by political scientists in their use of the comparative method? 4. What is selection bias? An example? 5. Endogeneity refers to ________ 6. Recent discussions of the future of comparative politics and political science have called for ... 7. To a comparativist, which would be of more value: discovery of a correlation or discovery of a causal relationship? Why? 8. In which ways can multicausality affect comparative politics research? 9. Which forms of research or data would more likely be used by a quantitative research study than by a qualitative research study? Chapter 2 : States 1. Political scientists, based on the work of Max Weber, define the state as________. 2. Sovereignty is defined as ________. 3. What is the concept of regime ? 4. Government can be defined as________. 5. The shorthand term for the combination of regime, state, and government is________. 6. What is the relationships among states, regimes, and governments? 7. Modern states are built primarily on what form of legitimacy? 8. Capacity can be defined as ________. 9. Devolution is a process by which states: 10. What is the impact of devolution on federalism? Chapter 3: Nations and Society 1. Ethnic identity can be defined as... 2. What is the impact Ethnic solidarity on willingness to share resources with groups that are ethnically different. 3. Citizenship is best defined as: 4. A state that encompasses one dominant nation that it claims to embody and represent is known as: Chapter 4: Political Economy 1. What are the most fundamental components of political economy. 2. Markets can best be defined as: 3. Public goods are best defined as ... 4. What is the oldest of the political-economic systems, and what system first rose to challenge it? 5. In which ways do both communism and mercantilism differ from liberalism? 6. The total market value of all goods and products produced in a year is known as: 7. Taxes on imported goods are known as: 8. Restrictions that limit the quantities of foreign goods coming into a country are an example of what concept in political economy? 9. Social democracy can be defined as ... 10. Which political-economic system views private property as a form of exploitation? 11. Mercantilism is best associated with which economic policies? 12. Purchasing power parity is a way to measure ... 13. The Gini index is one way that social scientists measure ...