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POLI105 & POLI316 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
LATEST UPDATE 2025 GRADED A++
Terms in this set (93)
politics the struggle in any group for power
that will give one or more persons
the ability to make decisions for the
larger group
power the ability to influence others or impose
one's will on them
relationship politics is the competition for public
between politics power
and power
comparative the study and comparison of domestic
politics politics across countries
comparative a way to compare cases and draw
method conclusions
inductive reasoning studying a case to generating a
hypothesis about why a country
operates in a certain way
deductive stating a generalization and then applying
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reasoning that principle to a multiple cases
why do we use helps us develop and test
comparative explanations of how political
method to study processes work or when political
politics change occurs; description,
explanation, and prediction
uses a set of concepts to describe
description in something; conceptual framework must
comparative be
method clearly defined and well
understood; intersubjective
(understood the same way by
different subjects)
explanation in answering why questions and identifying
comparative casual relationships
method
theories well supported statements about casual
relationships that are testable
hypothesis casual explanation that is not yet proven
variables features in which cases differ
large-n statistical get generalizations and identify
studies relationships that may have occurred by
chance
small-n statistical get clinical details and examine each link
studies in the casual process
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spurious causal when two factors appear casually related
relationship to one another but are not
how do political use of interventions, finding "natural
scientists conduct experiments" in history
experiments
prediction in test hypotheses against data; never
comparative certain that all relevant factors have
method been captured
max weber an institution claiming a "monopoly
definition of state of legitimate use of physical force in
enforcing its order within a given
territorial area
sovereignty the state is the highest authority
thomas hobbes human beings voluntarily submitted
to political authority to overcome
anarchy and gain security, which
ensures neither freedom nor
equality
human beings were in essence "noble
jean-jaques savages" who were instinctively
rousseau compassionate and egalitarian, it was
civilization and the rise of the state
that corrupted them by
institutionalizing inequality
states posses 1. states encouraged economic
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PM
POLI105 & POLI316 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
LATEST UPDATE 2025 GRADED A++
Terms in this set (93)
politics the struggle in any group for power
that will give one or more persons
the ability to make decisions for the
larger group
power the ability to influence others or impose
one's will on them
relationship politics is the competition for public
between politics power
and power
comparative the study and comparison of domestic
politics politics across countries
comparative a way to compare cases and draw
method conclusions
inductive reasoning studying a case to generating a
hypothesis about why a country
operates in a certain way
deductive stating a generalization and then applying
1/
17
,7/13/25, 6:48
PM
reasoning that principle to a multiple cases
why do we use helps us develop and test
comparative explanations of how political
method to study processes work or when political
politics change occurs; description,
explanation, and prediction
uses a set of concepts to describe
description in something; conceptual framework must
comparative be
method clearly defined and well
understood; intersubjective
(understood the same way by
different subjects)
explanation in answering why questions and identifying
comparative casual relationships
method
theories well supported statements about casual
relationships that are testable
hypothesis casual explanation that is not yet proven
variables features in which cases differ
large-n statistical get generalizations and identify
studies relationships that may have occurred by
chance
small-n statistical get clinical details and examine each link
studies in the casual process
2/
17
, 7/13/25, 6:48
PM
spurious causal when two factors appear casually related
relationship to one another but are not
how do political use of interventions, finding "natural
scientists conduct experiments" in history
experiments
prediction in test hypotheses against data; never
comparative certain that all relevant factors have
method been captured
max weber an institution claiming a "monopoly
definition of state of legitimate use of physical force in
enforcing its order within a given
territorial area
sovereignty the state is the highest authority
thomas hobbes human beings voluntarily submitted
to political authority to overcome
anarchy and gain security, which
ensures neither freedom nor
equality
human beings were in essence "noble
jean-jaques savages" who were instinctively
rousseau compassionate and egalitarian, it was
civilization and the rise of the state
that corrupted them by
institutionalizing inequality
states posses 1. states encouraged economic
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