What were the "paradigm wars?"

What will be an ideal response?


A period of intense debate, from the 1970s to the 1990s, between social scientists over the value of positivist and interpretivist/constructivist research philosophies. The end of that "war" meant the decline in disagreements between qualitative and quantitative methodologists about the philosophies behind their methodological preferences.

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An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire over the course of their lifetime is known as what?

a. party identification b. voter identity c. electoral socialization d. platform identification

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Ejidatarios are

A. small peasant farmers. B. urban workers. C. peasants. D. small businessmen.

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As political linkage factors, how do people in interest groups and social movements directly influence the Court?

What will be an ideal response?

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The British electoral system is a:

A. multiple member district voting system B. hereditary representation system C. single-member district, plurality voting system D. single-member district, majority voting system

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