Across
- 2. A focus on effects rather than causes, which can lead to inaccurate conclusions about correlation or causation
- 4. The issue that cause and effect are not often clear, in that variables may be both cause and effect in relationship to one another.
- 5. study through statistical data from many cases
- 7. A theory asserting that as societies developed,they would take on a set of common characteristics, including democracy and capitalism
- 10. The study and comparison of domestic politics across countries
- 11. study through an in-depth investigation of a limited number of cases
- 13. a shared material standard of individuals within a community, society, or country
- 14. 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
- 15. an approach that emphasizes how actors or organizations behave in their goal to influence others. Built upon assumptions of rational choice
- 16. 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. the means by which social scientists make comparisons across cases
- 18. research that works from case studies in order to generate hypotheses
Down
- 1. the ability to influence others or impose one's will on them
- 3. an organization or activity that is self-perpetuating and valued for its own sake
- 6. the struggle in any group for power that will give one or more persons the ability to make decisions for the larger group
- 8. approach that assumes that individuals weight the costs and benefits and make choices to maximize their benefits
- 9. an apparent relationship between two or more variables
- 12. research that works from a hypothesis that is then tested against data