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Which one of the following is an advantage of comparison?
- It enriches our knowledge of history
- It improves our classifications of political processes
- It deepens our understanding of political philosophy
- It provides the starting point for studying international relations
Which one of the following is a risk of comparison?
- The ‘same’ political phenomenon can mean different things in different countries (
- We are led to concentrate excessively on a country’s history
- There is too much emphasis on the politics of a single country
- The comparative approach leads to excessive focus on the legal system
Fill in the blank: ‘In this way, …. provides some capacity to anticipate and even shape the future’ (Richard Rose)
- institutional analysis
- case studies
- lesson drawing
- the interpretive approach
Selection bias arises when
- comparative research focuses on the process of political recruitment
- comparative research focuses on the study of elections and voting
- the choice of what to study results in unrepresentative results
- cases selected for study are representative of a wider population
comparative research focuses on the study of elections and voting
- comparing voters and non-voters
- studying the characteristics of non-voters
- comparing turnout trends over time
- comparing turnout across countries
Studying the relationship between the Presidency and Congress in the United States is an example of
- state-centred analysis
- institutional analysis
- society-centred analysis
- none of the above
A ‘case’ is
- an instance of a more general category
- any study of a specific country
- any process which leads to a stable outcome
- an example of a norm
A deviant case
- is expected to become typical
- is an exception to the norm
- tests a theory in the least favourable conditions
- creates the category of which it is then treated as a case