POG 240 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mixed Government, Presidential System, Liberal Democracy

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 240
• Professor: Adam Thorn

Document Summary

People do what they do because they belong to a certain class: rational choice. The relationship between different things and rules. Focuses tend to look at the state. Presidential system vs. parliamentary systems: pluralism/corporatism, systems theory, governance. The interests that actors pursue through political actions: theory in comparative politics. Theories are the specific relationship between important ideas or concepts an approach specifies. Week 2: key terms, hypothesis: predicted relationship between concepts or variables i. e. democracy causes economic growth, variables: characterizes of units that can take different values i. e. number of elections. Large n: utilizes statistical methods to approximate experimental design by controlling for effects of different variables. Imperfect approximation of the experimental method: small n: comparative method, research design based on small number of cases. Looking at a few number of cases and doing an intensive study of those: you don"t look at two variables; looking at a whole range of things in significant depth, single case study.