The comparative method
a. seeks to explain political outcomes by looking at the effects of individual political actors and gaining an understanding of their decision-making process.
b. combines aspects of most similar and most different studies by looking at sets of similar cases, each set coming from a particular region, and then comparing the findings across different regions.
c. is a research design which seeks to understand the effects of a particular dependent variable by examining a small number of cases.
d. is a project that examines a particular research question in a case that exhibits characteristics very different from a generally-known pattern. Understanding why such an "outlier" exists may give researchers new insight into the topic of their study.
e. is a logical process in which existing general laws are used to explain specific events.
C
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a. He was the first person to serve as prime minister who was neither the leader of his own party nor that of a ruling coalition. b. He was the only non-Congress prime minister prior to 1989. c. He was the first prime minister not to come from the Nehru–Gandhi dynasty. d. He was the first prime minister to be assassinated by his own bodyguards. e. He was the first prime minister to seek normalization with Pakistan.