Identify the five steps that you need to consider in setting up an observational study
What will be an ideal response?
(a) Conduct a literature search to see what others have already done.
(b) Identify valid methods of observation
(c) Determine the focus of your observations; that is, what behaviors will you monitor?
(d) Set up your sampling strategy, identifying those you will observe, where you will do it, and when you will do it.
(e) Train the investigators to be reliable in their observations.
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There are numerous constraints on the foreign-policy-making process. What are they? Which are the most important? Give an example of when they adversely affected foreign policy
What will be an ideal response?
__________ refers to conformity to opinions that supposedly reflect group consensus
a. Groupthink b. Group conformity c. Group polarization d. Group identity
The New Deal and Great Society programs gave the national government increased responsibility and authority to provide programs and services to citizens. Beginning in the 1980s many of the services provided by the federal government were relinquished to the state governments. This process is known as
a. deregulation. b. devolution. c. privatization. d. reinvention. e. revolution.
How did Barack Obama interpret John Kerry’s narrow Electoral College loss as a way to develop a strategy using battleground states to assure victory in 2008?
a. The campaign focused on three battleground states that Bush had won comfortably while holding onto the states Kerry won. b. They were on the defensive to hold onto the states Kerry won. c. The campaign ignored states that Kerry lost and focused on sure wins to save resources. d. The Obama campaign mirrored the McCain campaign, but Obama’s resources dwarfed McCain’s efforts, so that it was hard to notice McCain’s advertising.