Three countries called Kenatolia, Hesaina, and Jalkavia recently experienced civil wars. Political comparativists proposed 4 probable attributes for the civil wars: unemployment, terrain, ethnic diversity, and type of government.
Below are the characteristics of each attribute for each country.
Kenatolia: High unemployment, flat terrain, ethnically heterogeneous, and federalist government.
Hesaina: High unemployment, mountainous terrain, ethnically heterogeneous, and socialist government.
Jalkavia: Low unemployment, mountainous terrain, ethnically heterogeneous, and communist government.
According to the method of agreement in the comparative method, which of the following attributes was the cause of the civil wars?
A. unemployment
B. type of government
C. unemployment and terrain
D. ethnic diversity
E. ethnic diversity and terrain
Question 2
Which of the following is true of the method of agreement used in comparative politics?
A. It looks at attributes that are absent when similar outcomes occur.
B. It fails to rule out the possibility that other attributes may also cause the concerned outcomes.
C. It serves as the strongest method for making causal inferences in comparative politics.
D. It fails to study real-life events and confines itself to hypothetical situations.
E. It focuses on similar attributes that lead to the different outcomes.
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