Chapter 1 EU

●Governments

________ are policymaking parts of political systems.

●Political Data

________: useful in testing hypotheses.

●International

________: exchanges among countries, interdependence and globalization.

●Conceptual framework

________: clearly defined and well understood.

●Variables

________: differing features associated with cases.

●Hypotheses

________: causal explanations not yet proven.

●Structure

________: parliaments, bureaucracies, administrative agencies, courts.

●Aristotle

________: economic and social comparisons of Greek city- states.

●Theories

________: well supported statements about causal relationships.

●Description

________: first stage in the study of politics.

●Intersubjective

________: understood in same way by different subjects.

●Political system

________ exists in international and domestic environments.

political culture

●Domestic: economic and social systems, ________.

●Political System

________: set of institutions concerned with formulating and implementing collective goals.

●Aristotle

economic and social comparisons of Greek city-states

●Description

first stage in the study of politics

●Conceptual framework

clearly defined and well understood

●Intersubjective

understood in same way by different subjects

●Theories

well supported statements about causal relationships

●Hypotheses

causal explanations not yet proven

●Political Data

useful in testing hypotheses

●Variables

differing features associated with cases

●Predictions

testing hypotheses against data

●Political System

set of institutions concerned with formulating and implementing collective goals

●International

exchanges among countries, interdependence and globalization

●Domestic

economic and social systems, political culture

●Structure

parliaments, bureaucracies, administrative agencies, courts

●Six types of political structures

political parties, interest groups, legislatures, executives, bureaucracies, courts