How P+IR Count Notes 0.0 / 5 ? Government & Politicshow p+ir countUniversityAll boards Created by: Harriso123Created on: 25-05-18 19:04 What is the Unit of measurement? The objects your variables describes 1 of 37 What is validity? How well the measure represents the true construct 2 of 37 Whats the difference between qualitative and quantitative? Quantitative is the numbers qualitative is not 3 of 37 What is ope rationalization? Turning a construct into a measure 4 of 37 Whats the difference between a manifest construct and a latent construct? Latent cannot be directly observed 5 of 37 What is a case? Each individual example of a unit of observation 6 of 37 What is a unit of observation? What is being collected 7 of 37 What is positivism? Social science using natural sciences 8 of 37 What is descriptive? The goal is to provide an accurate description of the way the world is 9 of 37 What is empirical? Seeks to develop a statement on what the world could be 10 of 37 What is the level of measurement? The difference between variables 11 of 37 What is a realist? What the concept means 12 of 37 What is nominalist? Literal approach to the wording 13 of 37 What is operationalization? The process of moving from 'conceptualized constructs' to actual measurements 14 of 37 What is conceptualization? The process of creating mental categories that capture the meaning of objects, events or ideas 15 of 37 How do you make a concept travel and not stretch? Add subtypes, precising, shifting the concept 16 of 37 What are the measures of central tendency? Mean, mode and median 17 of 37 What is an ordinal measurement? Order of rank 18 of 37 What is a nominal/categorical measurement? Categories 19 of 37 What is an interval measurement? There is a meaningful distance between the numbers 20 of 37 What is a ratio measurement? Same as an interval but with a 0 21 of 37 What does the unit of analysis refer to? Whatever the variable describes (e.g. people, cases) 22 of 37 What does the electoral democracy index measure? Rulers responsiveness 23 of 37 What does the Liberal democracy index measure? Individual rights 24 of 37 What does Egalitarian measure? Material and inmaterial inequalities 25 of 37 What does participatory measure? Citizens participation 26 of 37 What does deliberative measure? How decisions are reached into policy 27 of 37 Democracy can be conceptualized as what? Competition, balance and participation 28 of 37 What are the 4 democracy indices? V-Dem, Democracy dictatorship, polity IV, freedom house 29 of 37 What is the Human Development Index? A summary measure of average achievement in key areas 30 of 37 What groups does Human Development Index use? Very high (0.800+), High (0.700-0.799) Medium (0.550-0.699), Low (Below 0.550) 31 of 37 What are possible causes for Civil War? Income inequality, history of war, lack of democracy 32 of 37 How can ethnic competition cause violence? Segmentation of a large sample of the population, lots of ethnic elites given power, short history of direct rule 33 of 37 What are the 4 v's? Volume, veracity, validity, velocity 34 of 37 What are the opportunities from datafication? Learn behavior patterns, improve efficiency 35 of 37 What are the challenges from datafication? How to capture, store, analyse and represent this so it is actionable 36 of 37 What are the issues with big data collection? Ethical?, hard to legislate 37 of 37
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