Question No. 16

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Here's Question No. 16 (It's a Short-Answer Concepts question.):

Political scientists endeavor to maintain an empirical point of view when comparing political systems.

What are two reasons that is an important endeavor for political scientists?

If political scientists used normative analyses when comparing political systems, what is one way you would expect the results of their comparisons to be different from when they used empirical analyses? (4 point question)


(See pp. 25-27, 37, and 39 in What You Need to Know.)

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