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34 Cards in this Set
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Ethnic Nation |
a nation who whose national identity is based on its ethnic identity. |
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civic nation |
a nation whose members are united by multiethnic cultural feature and citizenship in the state rather than by shared ethnic identity. |
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ideal type |
a pure form of a concept that may never be realized in practice |
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nationalism |
the pursuit of a set of rights for a nation, including the right of political control over a certain territory |
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nationalist |
a leader of a movement based on nationalism |
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territorial autonomy |
a group;s control of much of what happens in a particular region that is not officially independent |
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nation-state |
an independent state that exists for a single nation, it is the ultimate goal of most nationalists |
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overlapping homelands |
a situation in which two more nations lay claim to the same territory as part or all of their homeland |
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science |
a form of systematic study undertaken to better understand nature and human behavior that relies on empirical data, employs a generally accepted methodology to allow others to replicate findings, and focuses on questions about how things are rather than how things ought to be |
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causality |
a relationship between two or more variables in which changes in the presence or value of one produces a change in the presence or value or another |
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variable |
an item whose existence or value can change |
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dependent variable |
the outcome that investigator seek to explain |
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independent variable |
something investigators use to explain an outcome, whose value or existence is not affected by the rest of the factors they examine |
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theory |
a set of propositions about how and why phenomena relate to one another in a variety of settings |
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research question |
a puzzle that does not have an obvious answer and forms the basis for a research project |
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hypothesis |
a tentative statement by a researcher about the expected relationship between what the researcher is examining as a potential cause or causes |
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falsifiable |
a trait of a good hypothesis, the term means that the hypothesis is not a statement that is true by definition |
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tautology |
a statement that is true by definition |
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conceptualization |
the way that a researcher thinks about a particular concept, including which aspects are most important to consider when studying it |
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operationalization |
the establishment of a particular measurement scheme for a concept, allowing one to observe and categorize data about it |
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level of analysis |
a choice from a continuum of options--from the individual to the international system--concerning where a researcher will look for data |
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quantitative studies |
studies that involve a large number of cases, allowing the researcher to use statistical techniques to analyze the data |
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qualitative studies |
studies that involve a small number of cases and do not allow the researcher to use statistical techniques to analyze the data |
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case study |
a research project looking at only one case (all called single case study) |
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internal validity |
the soundness of the researcher's claims based on the data |
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external validity |
the extent to which the findings of a study would hold up if data from cases not examined in the study were analyzed |
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deviant case study |
a project that examines a research question in a case that exhibits characteristics very different form a generally known pattern |
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critical case study |
a type of cause study in which the cause is selected because it provides a tough test of the central hypothesis or hypotheses in the researcher's study |
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compartive method |
a research design that seeks to understand the causes of a dependent variable by examining a small number of carefully selected cases |
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most similar approach |
a form of the comparative method examining cases that are very much alike, but in which the dependent variable varies |
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most different approach |
a form of the comparative method examining cases that are very different from one another, but in which the dependent variable is similar |
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structural approach |
a broad approach to studying politics tha seeks to explain political outcomes by looking at the effects of the underlying economic, social, or political institutional setting in a country or set of countries |
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choice approach |
a broad approach to studying politics that seeks to explain political outcomes by looking at the effects of individual political actors and gaining an understanding of their decision-making process |
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ecological fallacy |
an error resulting from assuming that general trends or observations of groups correspond to particular events or actions or specific individuals |
