Political Science 5 Lecture

1
Political Science 5Lecture 10, 2/26/04

• Homework 2 due today!
• Midterm 1 on Tuesday
• Solution sets for Homework 2 posted
• Homework 3 will be posted this weekend
• Chapter 7 not required

2
POLI SCI METHODOLOGIST?
3
Rules

• Qualifying round put political events in correct
  chronological order
• You can only be in the hot seat one time--will
  keep going until questions or time runs out
• You have one lifeline choose among calling a
  friend, asking the audience, or 50/50
• You can win points added to your participation
  score .10 for one correct answer, .50 for two, 1
  for three, and 1.5 for four correct answers (this
  is the Methods equivalent of 1 million dollars!)
• If you get an answer wrong, you lose everything!
  So you may want to take the money and go.

4
Qualifying Round

• Put the following important political events in
  the correct order
• Passage of NAFTA
• Iranian Revolution
• First election of Bill Clinton
• Passage of Prop 209 in California

5
Qualifying Round

• Put the following important political events in
  the correct order
• Tenure of SOS Albright
• Tenure of SOS Christopher
• Tenure of SOS Powell
• Tenure of SOS Baker

6
Qualifying Round

• Put the following important political events in
  the correct order
• Fall of Berlin Wall
• End of Apartheid in South Africa
• Second candidacy of Ross Perot
• Second term of Ronald Reagan

7
Qualifying Round

• Put the following important political events in
  the correct order
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Eisenhower Presidency
• Election of Jimmy Carter
• Beginning of Post-Yugoslav War in Bosnia

8
Qualifying Round

• Put the following important political events in
  the correct order
• End of WWII
• French Revolution
• Treaty of Versailles
• Cuban Revolution

9
Qualifying Round

• Put the following important political events in
  the correct order
• Independence of Mexico
• Independence of Haiti
• Independence of India
• Independence of Belize

10
Qualifying Round

• Put the following important political events in
  the correct order
• Creation of modern Israeli State
• Fall of Byzantium to the Ottomans
• US Declaration of Independence
• Unification of Germany

11
Qualifying Round

• Put the following important political events in
  the correct order
• Election of Governor Davis
• Prop 187 in California
• Internment of Japanese-Americans
• Tenure of Gov Deukmejian

12
Qualifying Round

• Put the following important political events in
  the correct order
• Ford Presidency
• Nixon Presidency
• Carter Presidency
• Johnson Presidency

13
Qualifying Round

• Put the following important political events in
  the correct order
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution
• Yalta Summit
• Bay of Pigs
• US invasion of Panama

14
For .10 points

• The opposite of empirical work is
• A. experimental work
• B. Quasi-experimental work
• C. Theoretical Research
• D. Survey Research

15
For .10 points

• Which of the following is the null hypothesis of
  the hypothesis People with incomes above
  200,000 tend to vote Republican?
• A. There is a negative relationship between
  income and voting patterns
• B. There is a positive relationship between
  income and voting patterns.
• C. People with incomes below 200,000 tend to
  vote Democratic.
• D. None of the above

16
For .10 points

• Which of the following is true?
• A. In social science, we can often make
  deterministic claims about causality
• B. An ideal hypothesis should indicate
  directionality
• C. The dependent variable in the Inglehart
  article is political culture
• D. A leading question is important in a survey
  questionnaire

17
For .10 points

• Which of the following is the highest level of
  measurement?
• A. Nominal
• B. Ratio
• C. Interval
• D. Ordinal

18
For .10 points

• Which of the following relationships is NOT
  likely to be positive?
• A. education and health
• B. social spending and the infant mortality rate
• C. hours spent campaigning and the number of
  votes received
• D. budget of EPA and level of pollution
  enforcement

19
For .10 points

• Which of the following methods of sampling is
  likely to produce the most representative sample
• A. voluntary response sampling
• B. quota sampling
• C. multistage cluster sampling
• D. haphazard sampling

20
For .10 points

• In experimental research, which of the following
  is the group that doesnt get a treatment?
• A. control group
• B. cluster group
• C. null group
• D. none of the above

21
For .10 points

• Infant Mortality Rate could be a plausible
  indicator for all of the following except
• A. quality of a countrys health system
• B. poverty rate
• C. type of electoral system
• D. access to prenatal care

22
For .50 points

• Which of the following is not a disadvantage of
  an open-ended question on a survey?
• A. it is difficult to code
• B. answers are subject to interviewers
  interpretation
• C. the respondent is not confined to categories
• D. none of the above

23
For .50 points

• Which of the following concepts probably cannot
  be measured using the interval level?
• A. party affiliation
• B. support for government spending
• C. support for freedom of speech
• D. all of the above

24
For .50 points

• Which of the following variable descriptions uses
  using the ratio level of measurement?
• A. number of public figures that a person can
  correctly identify from a list
• B. support for government spending (do not
  support, somewhat support, strongly support)
• C. state of residence
• D. degree of political trust (low, medium, or
  high)

25
For .50 points

• One difference between an experimental and
  quasi-experimental research design is
• A. the latter does not use the scientific method
• B. the latter relies more on deduction
• C. the former has more control over confounds
• D. the former is more subject to response bias

26
For .50 points

• Among the the main findings of the poll cited in
  the Finnegan article is
• A. support for the recall cannot simply be
  described in terms of Democrats vs. Republicans
• B. Union Labor largely opposes the recall
• C. It is clear that the recall will pass
• D. all of the above

27
For .50 points

• The Larson article on Congressional information
  and voting employs a
• A. experimental design
• B. survey design
• C. content analysis design
• D. quasi-experimental design

28
For .50 points

• The second stage of the research process is
• A. formulating the hypothesis
• B. doing the literature review
• C. running the analysis
• D. writing the research report

29
For .50 points

• Which of the following was not a factor in
  turning the study of politics into a science?
• A. influence of other disciplines
• B. development of survey techniques
• C. competition from abroad
• D. the needs of the Cold War

30
For 1 point

• If a survey question about support for democracy
  is interpreted differently in the different
  cultures such that in some countries it is
  interpreted as support economic equality and in
  others as support for elections, a concern arises
  as to its _______ as a measure of democratic
  attitudes
• A. reliability
• B. validity
• C. variation
• D. inference

31
For 1 point

• If a particular survey question about democracy
  is missing from some surveys in a project but not
  others, a concern arises as to its _______ as a
  consistent measure of democratic attitudes around
  the globe
• A. reliability
• B. validity
• C. variation
• D. inference

32
For 1 point

• Quasi-experiments are strong on ________ while
  experiments are strong on __________
• A. external validity internal validity
• B. internal validity external validity
• C. reliability validity
• D. validity reliability

33
For 1 point

• All of the following are NOT well-formulated
  hypothesis except
• A. There is a positive relationship between
  education and support for democratic principles,
  controlling for regime type.
• B. There is a negative relationship between age
  and political tolerance.
• C. Countries with high levels of socioeconomic
  development become democracies.
• D. There is a positive relationship between a
  high voter turnout and level of political
  participation.

34
For 1 point

• The dependent variable in the Banaszak and
  Plutzer article is
• A. support for democracy.
• B. place of residence (US or EU).
• C. marital status.
• D. support of feminist goals.

35
For 1 point

• Which of the following is an example of a
  confound?
• A. you think that relative deprivation causes
  revolutions, when it is really culture that is
  behind both
• B. wealth is linked to whether one votes
  Republican or Democrat, but views on taxation lie
  between the two
• C. relative deprivation leads to revolutions, and
  relative deprivation is caused by economic
  underdevelopment
• D. none of the above.

36
For 1 point

• Which of the following relationships is likely to
  be spurious?
• A. age and height
• B. parents political preferences and childs
  political preferences
• C. average size of a meal and level of democracy
• D. education and health.

37
For 1 point

• In which of the following situations would you
  use an index?
• A. when your control group was not chosen well
  and you need to make adjustments
• B. only when you are relying on public records
  data
• C. when you have a complex variable that you need
  to measure on a variety of dimensions
• D. when you need to estimate a population
  parameter.

38
For 1.5 points

• Ingleharts purpose in showing that some
  countries with very high levels of support for
  democracy are not democracies is to
• A. demonstrate that traditional measures of
  democratic attitudes are insufficient in
  explaining democratic vs. non-democratic outcomes
• B. show that the opinion of the masses does not
  help in explaining democratic outcomes, so it is
  more helpful to look at elite attitudes
• C. suggest that these countries are on the cusp
  of democratization
• D. none of the above.

39
For 1.5 points

• If the standard deviation of Sampling
  Distribution A is smaller than Sampling
  Distribution B, we can say all of the following
  except
• A. the sample size (N) of A was larger than B
• B. any confidence interval for A will encompass a
  tighter range than for B
• C. the samples of A are less dispersed than those
  of B
• D. A is a better estimator of the population
  parameters than B.

40
For 1.5 points

• In demonstrating that different electoral systems
  produce different levels of female representation
  in the same country, Rule is essentially
  controlling for
• A. electoral system
• B. culture
• C. the number of women in parliament
• D. none

41
For 1.5 points

• Which of the following is not among the criteria
  to show causality?
• A. show that there is no variation in the
  dependent variable
• B. show that that there is a correlation
• C. explain the causal mechanism
• D. Rule out confounding factors

42
For 1.5 points

• Why do we care about external validity?
• A. Because we want our causal relationship to be
  plausible
• B. Because cross-section analysis may have its
  limitations
• C. Because maturation may be at work
• D. Because we want our results to teach us
  something about the larger world

43
For 1.5 points

• The kind of research used in the Economist
  article is an example of
• A. observational research
• B. quasi-experimental research
• C. content analysis
• D. Experimental research

44
For 1.5 points

• To increase the reliability of his research
  findings, Rasinski
• A. used different interviewers every time
• B. has the same interviewer return to the same
  homes
• C. repeats his research over several years
• D. Confirms that all of his respondents have the
  same understanding of government spending

45
For 1.5 points

• What is the unit of analysis for both independent
  and dependent variables in the first Inglehart
  reading
• A. country for both independent and dependent
• B. aggregated individual for both independent and
  dependent
• C. aggregated individual for independent and
  country for dependent
• D. Aggregated individual for dependent and
  country for independent