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Global Politics
Global Politics #1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Regime | the entire system of rules, laws, institutions in a state |
| Government | people and agencies that have power and authority to determine policies and allocation of resources in a given territory |
| States | any legal entity with a monopoly on the legitimate use of force within a given territory or defined boundaries |
| Nations | community of people that share some common identity from culture, language, religion, race, history, or descent |
| Institutions | formal and informal rules and norms that organize social, political, and economic relations |
| Organizations | group of individuals that help navigate institutions designed for a purpose |
| Validity | the extent to which our measures correspond to the concepts they're trying to measure |
| Reliability | extent to which our measures give is the same answers repeatedly |
| Replicability | extent to which a 3rd party can reproduce your measure |
| Nominal | classify observations into groups and categories ex. type of dictatorships |
| Ordinal | rank-order observations, but can't make any substantial differences between categories ex. Polity IV, Freedom House |
| Interval | can say how much more one category is from another ex. pH |