POL 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dependent And Independent Variables, Falsifiability
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Dependent variable: the event, policy, or measure of interest. Causal direction: expectation of which variable is influencing and which is being. Independent variable: input that we believe affects the outcome influenced. Systemic: relative position and interactions of states. Individual: what about certain leaders" characteristics cause them to act in certain ways not as important today. Nation: social group defined by shared cultural, linguistic, and historical heritage. State: an organized political unit that has geographic territory, a stable population, and a government to which the population owes allegiance, and that is legally recognized by other states. Nation-state: state primarily composed and representative of a single nation. Institution: processes and structures of social order around which relatively stable individual and group expectations and identities converge.
