POLI 130 Final: POLI 130 Final Exam Study Guide
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Format (cid:623)/(cid:616)(cid:617) ids from part (cid:618) of the course (cid:617)/(cid:618) essays cumulative. Comparative politics: study and comparison of domestic politics across countries. Institutions: organizations or activities that are self-perpetuating and valued for their own sake. Politics: struggle in any group for power that will give one or more persons the ability to make decisions for the larger group. Comparative method: a way to compare cases and draw conclusions. Inductive reasoning: the means by which we go from studying a case to generating a hypothesis. Deductive reasoning: starting with a puzzle and from there generating some hypothesis about cause and effect to test against a number of cases. Multicausality: many variables are tied together to produce particular outcomes. Selection bias: is the selection of individuals, groups or data for analysis in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved, thereby ensuring that the sample obtained is not representative of the population intended to be analyzed.
