Comparative Politics: Research Methodologies, Development Indicators, and Data Analysis

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Political Science - Comparative Politics

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What is the term for information presented in numbers that serve as a way to compare different countries and draw conclusions?
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What is the term for information typically presented in statements?
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What is the term for when two sets of data are related?
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What is the term for when one variable influences another?
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What is the indicator of the level of development for each country, constructed by the United Nations, combining income, literacy, education, and life expectancy?
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What is the term for a measurement of the total goods and services produced within a country?
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What is the term for GDP divided by population?
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What is the term for the annual percentage change in the value of real GDP?
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What is the mathematical formula that measures the amount of economic inequality in a society?
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What is the organization that annually calculates a 'freedom' score for every country in the world, focusing on political rights and civil liberties?
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What is the private organization that compiles statistics about corruption in countries around the world?
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What is the measure of the degree to which a state is weak and fragile?
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What is the term for statements that simply state facts?
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What is the term for statements that include opinions and value judgments?
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What is a model, or an example, of a political system that can be generalized to most systems?
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What surrounds a political system in the Systems Theory?
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What do people regard to be normal and expected in a society, usually developed through historical traditions?
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What are the demands, support, and suggestions exercised to the political system?
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What does the political system produce, such as decisions, actions, and policies?
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What are the institutions that can connect people to policy making?
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What are the formal institutions that are most directly involved with policymaking?
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What is a set of interrelated institutions that links people with government?
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What are political organizations that have a permanent population, governing institutions, control over a defined territory, and international recognition?
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What is the ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states?
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What term describes how well a state is able to function?
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What is any state that is able to make, enact, and enforce different policies?
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What is a state that does not have the capacity to make, enact, and enforce different policies?
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What are states that fail to provide basic necessities, like law and order, to their people?
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What term describes how much people accept and believe the state's right to rule the state?
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What is it called when a ruler is accepted because that is how it has always been?
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What is it called when one person is the central part of a state's legitimacy?
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What is it called when official and legal rules are the foundation of the state's legitimacy?
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What are states that choose to concentrate most (or all) of their power in one level of government?
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What is it called when the central government gives certain important powers to regional governments?
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What are states that maintain an official and constitutional division of power between the central and regional governments?
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What is a group of people who share commonalities, like race, religion, language, political identity, ethnicity, and most importantly, the desire for sovereignty?
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What are the rules that oversee a political system's operations and determine the acquisition and practice of political power?
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What are gradual and evolutionary changes to a regime?
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What are sudden and extreme changes to a regime?
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What is it called when the military seizes political power in a regime?
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Who are the people who currently hold political power in official positions of authority?
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What are organizations that involve many states (through representatives) in order to make decisions for the states involved?
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What is a cultural identity shared by a group of people?
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What is a group distinguished by physical features?
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What is a group of people, not an institutional mechanism or set territory, who share political aspirations?
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What is the confidence that people can achieve the nation's political aspirations or a sense of pride in one's country?
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What is a formal identity that establishes who is involved in the state and comes with certain legal rights and responsibilities?
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What is a belief in the state's capabilities?
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What is the basis for political conflict, in the way that they separate different people into their interests?
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What are cleavages that occur independently of each other and divide people into their individual interests?
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What are cleavages that have a strong relationship with others and create an unstable society?
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What are forces in a state that contribute to division and polarization?
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What are forces that unify the people of a state?
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Who are individuals that prefer dramatic and revolutionary change and believe that completely new institutions must be established?
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Who are individuals that prefer progressive change through legal reforms?
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Who are individuals that believe there is very little or no need for social change and are often critical of proposed changes in the system?
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What is what an individual believes the goal of politics is?
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What is the nationalist ideology that guarantees neither equality nor freedom and praises the state and their people's apparent superiority?
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What is the ideology that believes that economic equality results in true freedom and that economic inequality undermines a state?
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What is the ideology that shares communists' beliefs on economic inequality but opposes the strong state control that communism brings, promoting different policies for economic redistribution?
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What is the ideology that believes that economic and personal freedoms are important goals of a state and disagree with state interference in their beliefs and actions?
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What is the ideology that believes that a state is not essential to, and harms, the establishment of equality and freedom, and believes that abolishing the state is the first step in realizing them, so that the people can cooperate and build a strong community?
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What is the trend that political culture follows where the development of technology brings people from the globe together?
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What is the trend of development that nations start from valuing religion and tradition and go toward valuing scientific and economic development, as well as establishing human rights?
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What is the process of transition as a country attempts to move from an authoritarian form of government to a democratic one?
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What is the term for economics related to people or a small group of individuals?
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What is the term for economics related to the public sector?
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What is the 'place' where supply and demand interact with each other?
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What is a sum of money intended to help a certain product/industry from the government?
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What are markets that host illegal trades?
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What is the term for ownership of goods and services?
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What are goods provided by the state to the citizens?
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What are goods and services provided to people who are in need?
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What is a state that is taking care of its weakest people?
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What is a sum of money that must go to state revenue?
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What is an item or concept that society regards to have value?
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What is a system of money within a certain country or nation?
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What is it called when goods and services are worth more money, thus devaluing currency?
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What is a period of reduced economic activity?
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What is it called when a country's government begins printing money to pay for its spending?
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What are things that control people's and firm's activity in the market?
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What is the exchange of goods and services?
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What is the belief that the government has an obligation to protect local workers, firms, and individuals?
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What is international trade free of government interference?
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What are taxes on imports from other countries?
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What is a standard on how much of one good can be imported?
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What is the theory that states money and resources go from the periphery to the core?
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What measures how much individual choice is guaranteed for each consumer and producer?
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What measures how equally economic values are distributed among different people?
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What looks at the distribution and stage of industries?
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What is farming to produce food for the family, not necessarily to sell?
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What is a political system where the citizens participate in making important decisions?
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What is it called when elected officials and representatives make decisions for people?
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What is a representative elected by voters to parliament?
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What are the people and interests that an elected official represents?
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What is it called when people are allowed to vote directly on a policy issue?
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What is it called when a citizen votes on essential policy changes?
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What is a group formed by people that helps them define their interests?
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What is it called when societies allow civil societies to form naturally?
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What is it called when societies' civil societies are controlled by the state?
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