Followers of which method would be least interested in the decision-making process and are generally not interested in a specific decision by a single individual?
a. Comparative method
b. Structural approach
c. Choice approach
d. Case study method
e. Most similar approach
Q. 2Which method/approach seeks to explain political outcomes by examining underlying economic, social, and political structures in an effort to understand the political outcomes in which the researcher is interested?
a. Case study method
b. Structural approach
c. Comparative method
d. Choice approach
e. Cross-regional approach
Q. 3The major strength of the most different approach is that
a. the findings would seem to apply to countries with very different values of the dependent variable.
b. it allows researchers to generalize from the findings to a wide range of countries.
c. the findings apply only to countries with roughly the same value of the dependent variable as those in the study.
d. it is the easiest method to generate a statistically significant number of cases.
e. it limits the chance that researchers will generalize from the findings to countries that are quite different from the ones examined in the study, which prevents them from drawing false conclusions.
Q. 4The major strength of the most similar approach is that
a. it is the easiest method to generate a statistically significant number of cases.
b. the findings apply only to countries with roughly the same value of the dependent variable as those in the study.
c. researchers can generalize the findings to a wide range of different countries.
d. the findings would seem to apply to countries with very different values of the dependent variable.
e. it limits the chance that researchers will generalize from the findings to countries that are quite different from the ones examined in the study, which prevents them from drawing false conclusions.
Q. 5The comparative method
a. seeks to explain political outcomes by looking at the effects of individual political actors and gaining an understanding of their decision-making process.
b. combines aspects of most similar and most different studies by looking at sets of similar cases, each set coming from a particular region, and then comparing the findings across different regions.
c. is a research design which seeks to understand the effects of a particular dependent variable by examining a small number of cases.
d. is a project that examines a particular research question in a case that exhibits characteristics very different from a generally-known pattern. Understanding why such an outlier exists may give researchers new insight into the topic of their study.
e. is a logical process in which existing general laws are used to explain specific events.
Q. 6Which state would call into question the hypothesis that democracies are the result of high levels of economic development?
a. India
b. Britain
c. China
d. Germany
e. Russia
Q. 7Deviant case studies are valuable because they
a. prove hypotheses.
b. explain why cases that do not fit the hypothesis being tested do not undermine the validity of the hypothesis.
c. can prove hypothesis wrong.
d. lead researchers to consider different explanations that they might have ignored if they had also ignored the deviant case.
e. apply findings to countries with very different values of the dependent variable.
Q. 8Internal validity is the
a. sense that the claims of the researcher about a causal relationship in the case(s) examined are well-founded.
b. existence of data that are consistent with a theory support that theory.
c. sense that the claims of the researcher about a causal relationship would apply to cases the researcher did not examine.
d. belief by those obeying commands that those making the commands have the right to rule.
e. recognition by other states of the right of a state to control events in the territory over which it claims sovereignty.
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