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a- ignore them
b- accept them
c- reject them
d- try to evaluate them
Political Analysis is an attempt
to describe and explain politics
and political facts.
Certain descriptions:
Israel
posseses nuclear
weapons?
1- Authority
a) Specific authority sources: political
knowledge derives from a parent, teacher,
friend, or famous person.
1- Examine the existing evidence. We find what has been writtien about
voting by Political Scientists. We read relevant studies, books, journal
articles.
3- Operationalizing key concepts: This means that you specify exactly what
each concept means and how they might be measured. (what is meant by
voting and democracy)
1976 1996
men women men women
voted 77% 67% 53 56
did not voted 23% 33% 47 44
- Is the evidence sufficient? (men are more likely to vote than women)
- Is it possible to make generalization about gender and voting based on
only two elections?
- What is our inference about gender and voting?
Our answer will probably be based on the idea that men are more likely to vote
than women, but if you get data for other presidential elections you would
discover that women have voted at a higher rate than men in every US
presidential elections since 1980, and at a lower rate in every election prior to
1980.