If a field researcher wanted to learn a political organization's pattern of recruitment over time, the researcher might begin by interviewing a fairly recent recruit and ask who introduced that person to the organization. Then the researcher might interview the person named and ask who introduced that person to the political organization. This would be an example of

a. snowball sampling.
b. systematic sampling.
c. deviant cases sampling.
d. accidental sampling.
e. quota sampling.


A

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