CPI Exam 1 UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions And CORRECT Answers
argument - CORRECT ANSWER - The placement of evidence in logical form in support
of a position or claim.
comparative politics - CORRECT ANSWER - The subfield of political science that aims
to analyze multiple cases using the comparative method.
open-ended question - CORRECT ANSWER - A question that, in principle, is open to
numerous possible answers.
empirical - CORRECT ANSWER - Drawn from observations of the world...fact...links
cause and effect...can be observed and agreed upon by everyone
normative - CORRECT ANSWER - Concerned with specifying which sort of practice or
institution is morally or ethically justified...opinion...emphasizes the way things "should" be.
concepts - CORRECT ANSWER - an idea comparativists use to think about the process
we study...abstract ideas used to think about the process being studied
conceptualization - CORRECT ANSWER - the deliberate process through which we
create and select social-scientific concepts...the process of making up and defining concepts.
sartori's ladder of abstraction - CORRECT ANSWER - the idea that we can organize
concepts on the basis of their specificity or generality
operationalization - CORRECT ANSWER - the process through which we make a concept
measurable
, politics - CORRECT ANSWER - who gets what...when, why, and how
evidence - CORRECT ANSWER - a set of facts or observations used to support a
proposition or hypothesis
level of analysis - CORRECT ANSWER - the level at which observations are made, or at
which causal processes operate
case - CORRECT ANSWER - a unit or example of a phenomenon to be studied...basic
unit of analysis
variable - CORRECT ANSWER - an element or factor that is likely to change, or vary,
from case to case...causes and outcomes that we are trying to measure...cause
outcome - CORRECT ANSWER - something that is produced or changed in any social or
political process...effect
dependent variable - CORRECT ANSWER - the effect or outcome that we expect to be
acted on by the independent variable
independent variable - CORRECT ANSWER - the variable that we expect to "act on" or
change the value of the dependent variable
variation - CORRECT ANSWER - difference between cases in any given study
most-similar-systems (MSS) - CORRECT ANSWER - compares cases that are similar
with respect to a number of factors but with distinct outcomes...2 cases that look similar at first
glance
Questions And CORRECT Answers
argument - CORRECT ANSWER - The placement of evidence in logical form in support
of a position or claim.
comparative politics - CORRECT ANSWER - The subfield of political science that aims
to analyze multiple cases using the comparative method.
open-ended question - CORRECT ANSWER - A question that, in principle, is open to
numerous possible answers.
empirical - CORRECT ANSWER - Drawn from observations of the world...fact...links
cause and effect...can be observed and agreed upon by everyone
normative - CORRECT ANSWER - Concerned with specifying which sort of practice or
institution is morally or ethically justified...opinion...emphasizes the way things "should" be.
concepts - CORRECT ANSWER - an idea comparativists use to think about the process
we study...abstract ideas used to think about the process being studied
conceptualization - CORRECT ANSWER - the deliberate process through which we
create and select social-scientific concepts...the process of making up and defining concepts.
sartori's ladder of abstraction - CORRECT ANSWER - the idea that we can organize
concepts on the basis of their specificity or generality
operationalization - CORRECT ANSWER - the process through which we make a concept
measurable
, politics - CORRECT ANSWER - who gets what...when, why, and how
evidence - CORRECT ANSWER - a set of facts or observations used to support a
proposition or hypothesis
level of analysis - CORRECT ANSWER - the level at which observations are made, or at
which causal processes operate
case - CORRECT ANSWER - a unit or example of a phenomenon to be studied...basic
unit of analysis
variable - CORRECT ANSWER - an element or factor that is likely to change, or vary,
from case to case...causes and outcomes that we are trying to measure...cause
outcome - CORRECT ANSWER - something that is produced or changed in any social or
political process...effect
dependent variable - CORRECT ANSWER - the effect or outcome that we expect to be
acted on by the independent variable
independent variable - CORRECT ANSWER - the variable that we expect to "act on" or
change the value of the dependent variable
variation - CORRECT ANSWER - difference between cases in any given study
most-similar-systems (MSS) - CORRECT ANSWER - compares cases that are similar
with respect to a number of factors but with distinct outcomes...2 cases that look similar at first
glance
