Essentials of Comparative Politics Chapter 1 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. The study and comparison of domestic politics across countries.
  2. 5. A way to compare cases and draw conclusions.
  3. 6. An apparent association between certain factors or variables.
  4. 9. Approaches that are often narrowly focused, deep investigations of one or a few cases drawing from scholarly expertise.
  5. 12. Theory A theoretical framework to conceive social situations among competing players with the intention of producing optimal decision-making of independent and competing actors in a strategic setting.
  6. 14. The struggle in any group for power that will give one or more persons the ability to make decisions for the larger group.
  7. 16. It held that as societies developed they would become capitalist democracies, converging around a set of shared values and characteristics. It was a set of hypotheses about how countries develop.
  8. 17. The ability to influence others or impose one’s will on them.
  9. 18. A major methodological concern for many areas of business and management research that rely on regression analysis to draw causal inference.
Down
  1. 1. These methods have greater use of statistical analysis, and mathematical models often drawn from economics.
  2. 3. Starting with a puzzle and from there generating some hypothesis about cause and effect to test against a number of cases.
  3. 4. When the study population is not representative of the target population.
  4. 7. A theory that states that individuals use their self-interests to make choices that will provide them with the greatest benefit.
  5. 8. The means by which we go from studying a case to generating a hypothesis.
  6. 10. This refers to a material standard of living shared by individuals within a community, soci
  7. 11. When the subject of investigation shifted away from political institutions and toward individual political behavior.
  8. 13. Organizations or activities that are self-perpetuating and valued for their own sake.
  9. 15. An individual’s ability to act independently, without fear of restriction or punishment by the state or other individuals or groups in society.