Comparative Politics Chapter 1

After the first world war

To describe, explain, and predict similarities and differences across political systems

A methodology that involves comparing various countries from around the world

<p>Political institutions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Socially constructed behaviors created by humans</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unwritten, socially shared rules and norms</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Friendship or a group chat in WhatsApp</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are based on written laws and contracts</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To put down antisocial behavior and to allocate access over material resources.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In the Greek polis and Roman Republic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They asserted themselves as the source of a new kind of law – public law.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To control the relations between organs and offices of the state and between the state and various categories of individuals and groups.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The constitution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The state represents the domain of political activities, while society represents private capacities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An ensemble of arrangements and practices that address all and only the political aspects of the management of a territorial.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Those that are not the concern of public policy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Elections with limited competition</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They both have elections</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Universal suffrage, competitive elections, multipartism, or open media sources</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A system pursuing social equality, freedom, justice, and more</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hybrid regime</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Russia before Putinism</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are consolidated and stable</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Limited pluralism and limited participation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Elections</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Vertical accountability</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It includes a wide variety of regimes that might not be considered democratic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>There is no perfect democracy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A model that includes participatory democratic ideas that go beyond constitutional containment of democracy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It prevents abuse of power by rulers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To control what rulers do.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To further democratize economy and society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To decide which cases are useful for comparing and how many can be selected.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A method that involves the in-depth exploration of similarities and differences across cases.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A country is the case, and an individual voter is the unit of observation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The in-depth exploration of a single case as a standalone entity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Researchers can be thoroughly immersed in the data within a single case.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Describing processes over time, using time as the major operationalization of a variable.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To achieve an in-depth understanding and description of the phenomenon under study.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because it affects the quality of the research and the validity of the findings.</p> Signup and view all the answers