Hypothesis: “Countries with coalition governments are more likely than countries with majoritarian governments to have public policy favorable to the mass public.”  In this hypothesis, the agent is __________________ . 

Dartanian is tasked with creating a presentation on his most recent research. While his research looks at the relationships between variables, he wants to begin by showing the audience what each variable looks like. Here, he will be looking at univariate statistics. These most likely include: 

Two political scientists are discussing mechanisms that lead to outcomes in government. One scholar argues that the mechanism driving outcomes is competition; agents exercise their relative power by competing with each other in order to better satisfy their motives. However, the other scientist disagrees, arguing that ______________ is also an important mechanism because electoral competition is not always a zero-sum game. 

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 _____________________. 

What does a negative correlation indicate? 

What is inference and what is its relationship to theory? 

Researchers have noticed that piracy increases when fish stocks decline. This is an example of _______________. 

Below is a reference section from a study. Which of these citations does not represent acceptable academic literature?  References: Heideman, Amanda J. 2019. “Is It All About the Money? How Campaigns Spur Participation in State Court Elections,” Justice System Journal 40(3): 221-237. Olsen, Jonathan. 2018. “The Left Party and the AFD: Populist Competitors in Eastern Germany,” German Politics and Society 36(1): 70-83. Perrin, Andrew. 2018. “Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook,” Pew Research Center. Terbeek, Calvin. Forthcoming. ““Clocks Must Always Be Turned Back”: Brown v. Board of Education and the Racial Origins of Constitutional Originalism,” American Political Science Review FirstView. 

When a nursing assistant is serving meals to residents, she must always 

One way that a NA can promote independence for a resident with special needs is to