“Democratic respondents will be more likely than Republican respondents to support humanitarian intervention.” What is the independent variable? 

In class we discussed seven foundational components of political science as a discipline. Of those components, we recognize _______________ as the drivers of behavior/choices.  

Which of the example types of material below is acceptable for peer review? 

Denise is critiquing an article for her research methods course. In the article, the researchers state that unethical and malicious lending practices caused the market collapse in 2008. In turn, the authors of the article make the argument that housing markets are the only phenomena large enough to cause a market collapse in the an advanced democracy.  Denise’s first reaction to the article is: “But the EU doesn’t have standard home-lending processes; all EU countries have different lending and property laws. Yet, the world witnessed  an EU market crash that impacted all advanced democracies in the EU.”  Denise’s critique is an example of ________________________. 

Alio immigrated to the United States 4 years ago with her family. She is a first year graduate student studying individual opinions of governance. Unfortunately, Alio put off her research until she went home to visit her family over Thanksgiving break. Knowing most people in the neighborhood, the town, her church, etc., Alio thought she could quickly come up with at least 100 survey participants if we went from door to door, and approached people during her weekly activities.  Upon reading Alio’s research paper, the professor immediately recognized a problem with the data. Alio was marked down for failing to account for _____________________. 

When conducting a search on google scholar for appropriate literature, which aspect of the literature do you need to confirm? 

Relative to inference, historians might typically focus on ________________, while social scientists are particularly concerned with __________________. 

Hypothesis: “Republican respondents will be more likely than Democratic respondents to indicate that the U.S. military should intervene in combat zones.” What is the dependent variable? 

If a study finds that respondents vote for politicians that are harsh on immigrants, what is the primary motive of the agent according to political science? 

Below is a reference section from a study. Which of these citations does not represent acceptable academic literature?  References: Cook, Andrew C. 2021. “State Court Docket Watch: Jefferson v. Dane County, Wisconsin,” The Federalist Society Online. Goenaga, Agustín. 2019. “Defending popular sovereignty: discursive conflict in French and Swedish parliamentary debates on immigrant voting rights (1968-2017),” Citizenship Studies 23(8): 870-891.  Horz, Carlo M. Forthcoming. “Electoral Manipulation in Polarized Societies,” Journal of Politics Ahead of Print. Lebo, Matthew J. and Patrick W. Kraft. 2017. “The general error correction model in practice,” Research and Politics 4(2): 1-13.