Chapter 1 Vocabulary

2. organizations or activities that are self-perpetuating and valued for their own sake
3. a way to compare cases and draw conclusions
6. study through an in-depth investigation of a limited number of cases
7. study through statistical data from many cases
9. issue that cause and effect are not often clear, in that varibales may be both cause and effect in relationship to one another
11. a movement within political science during the 1950s and 1960s to develop general theories about individual political behavior that could be applied across all countries
12. a shared material standard of individuals within a community society or country
15. starting with a puzzle and from there generating some hypothesis about cause and effect to test against a number of cases
16. the struggle in any group for power that will give one or more persons the ability to make decisions for the larger group
18. approach that assumes that individuals weigh the costs and benefits and make choices to maximize their benefits

1. a theory asserting that as societies developed, they would take on a set of common characteristics including democracy and capitalism
4. the study and comparison of domestic politics across countries
5. an approach that emphasizes how actors or organizations behanve in their goal to influence others
8. means by which we go from studying a case to generating a hypothesis
10. the ability to influence others or impose one's will on them
13. focus on effects rather than causes whichcan lead to inaccurate conclusions about correlation or causation
14. the ability of an individual to act independently without fear of restriction or punishment by the state or other individuals or groups in society
17. apparent relationship between two or more varibales