Discuss the three questions that a researcher should ask in the start-up stage of the survey conduct; "Who will be the respondents?" "What information does the researcher want to learn from them?" "How can a researcher get that information?
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What will be an ideal response?
Who - researcher needs to know about his respondents. Without knowing the who, questions may be irrelevant or inappropriate. What - the researcher needs to focus on what info he needs for how he will use it -otherwise the information will be irrelevant. How - the researcher needs to decide the appropriate format of the survey. A short pilot
run is always a good indication if the survey is appropriate.
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Congress and the states moved quickly to pass the Twenty-sixth Amendment, which lowered the voting age to eighteen, because they
A) recognized the justice of the student antiwar and civil rights movements. B) knew that student voter turnout would be low. C) expected the new voters to change the political balance of power drastically. D) hoped to channel student energy away from demonstrations and toward more conventional forms of participation. E) realized the unfairness of the discrepancy between the military draft age and the voting age.
Describe the guidelines prescribed in the 1973 War Powers Resolution. In what ways has the War Powers Resolution been successful? How has it failed to achieve its purpose?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following is comprised of a broad array of the president's foreign policy advisers and is housed within the White House?
a. the Department of State b. the Department of Homeland Security c. the National Security Council d. the Central Intelligence Agency
With respect to the new Constitution, if you wanted to understand what the framers thought were the strengths of the document, where would you look?
a. minutes of the Constitutional Convention b. TheFederalist Papers d. Treatise on Government d. Declaration of Independence