Research methods in political science
Exploring Research Methods in Political Science
Enhance your knowledge of research methods in political science with this comprehensive quiz. Designed for students, educators, and researchers alike, this quiz covers a wide array of topics from experimental design to survey techniques.
Test your understanding and see how well you know the intricacies of political research methods!
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'As the number of hours of negative ads watched increases, the probability that an individual will vote decreases' This hypotheses reflects which type of research question?
Explanatory
Descriptive
Normative
Prescriptive
The main impact of a moderating factor can be defined as
Affecting the DV
Affecting the IV
Affecting the relationship between IV and DV
Mediating the relationship between IV and DV
Why do some researchers not consider a natural experiment to be a true experimental design?
It is missing an intervention or treatment
It is not conducted in a lab
It is not carefully designed
It missing a randomized intervention or treatment
What type of research question is 'What is the most effective way to combat transnational crime?'
Explanatory
Predictive
Prescriptive
Normative
When conducting a survey across Europe, you take a sample of 1000 respondents from each country. However, the countries differ in population size. How would you explain this procedure?
It is correct, the size of the sample does not influence the sampling error
It is correct, the size of the population does not matter for the sampling error.
It is correct since only equally sized samples can be compared
It is wrong, but we can correct it by reweighting the samples by the population size
Theoretical sampling is a form of
Multistage cluster sampling
Convenience sampling
Stratified random sampling
Purposive sampling
Which of the following statements is true?
Internet sampling is an easy way to get a large sample and therefore the best choice for population surveys.
The response rate for random digit dialing is way lower than for an established list of phone number due to mistakes in the phone numbers
Face-to-face interviews are best used to ask personal sensitive questions.
When drawing a true simple random sample, one person could be selected more than once.
Milgram's famous study Obedience to Authority raised many ethical issues. Which one was the most prominent?
The deception of participants
The use of electrical shocks
The inaccurate information
The psychological burden on participants
Which one of these is NOT among Mill's criteria for causality?
Temporal ordering
Covariance
Theoretical utility
Nonspurious connection
Observed measurement consists of
True score + error score
True score - error score
True score + random score
True score + systematic error
The presence or absence of a confounding factor is mainly a threat to
Internal validity
External validity
Measurement reliability
Criterion validity
MSSD employs what type of logical reasoning?
Inductive
Deductive
Analytical
Abductive
MDSD is based on selecting cases with
Similar IV and DV
Different IV and similar DV
Similar IV and different DV
Different DV and IV
Typology of the comparative method is based on:
The number of cases
The number of similarities
The number of differences
The GDP of a country
What is the purpose of an interview guide?
Provide respondents with instructions
Provide interviewers with a standardized questionnaire
Provide guidelines on recruiting respondents
Provide interviewers with an outline of topics to cover
The criterion of ecological validity can be classified as which type of validity?
Internal
External
Measurement
Concurrent
Which of the following characteristics correctly describe the design of the decision-making experiment about counter-terrorism strategies by Mintz, Redd, and Vedliz (2006)? Check all that are correct
Posttest-only design
Pretest-posttest design
Factorial design
Quasi-experimental treatment
Randomized treatment
Within-participants design
Which of the following usually scores the highest in terms of internal and external validity?
Lab experiment
Field experiment
Natural experiment
Survey experiment
What does simple random sapling entail?
Randomly selecting a sample from the population
Purposefully selecting a sample from the population
Randomly selecting from from the population in stages
Purposefully selecting for theory testing
Which of the following terms are all basic attributes of scientific research?
Intuitive, self-critical, methodological
Systematic, verifiable, theory-based
Verifiable, self-critical, traditional
Personal, methodological, exact
A researcher studies the political and economical development of the countries in the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. After the fall of the Soviet Union, many of the countries emerge as independent states. This process may pose a threat to internal and external validity due to:
Maturation
Attrition
Selection bias
History
When measuring a concept with multiple indicators, the most preferred outcome for the researcher would be:
High systematic error and high random error
Small random error and small systematic error
High random error and no systematic error
No random error but high systematic error
Kelsall's study of Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing in Sierra Leone primarily raises ethical questions due to:
Kelsall's being too rude
Deception of subjects
No consent
Violation of subject's privacy
Data mining refers to
Quantitative data collection method
Qualitative data collection method
Exploratory method of data analysis
Big data technique for theory testing
If we can establish that variable X changes before variable Q in time, then we can conclude that
Variable X is not a cause of variable Q
Variable X and Q are caused by an unknown variable
Variable Q is not a cause of variable X
Variable X is a cause of variable Q
Qualitative researchers Lincoln and Guba (2007) developed alternative criteria for qualitative research and assessment of validity and reliability. Click on the qualitative criteria which correspond to internal and external validity, in the same order.
Credibility and dependability
Credibility and transferability
Confirmability and transferability
Dependability and confirmability
Basic experimental design can consist of
Factorial design
Delayed effect design
Posttest only and pretest-posttest design
Solomon four-group design
Which of the following aspects were not discussed in Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Sierra Leone?
Role of the observer
Credibility of interpretations
Generalizability of findings
Data collection
When a quantitative researcher conducts content analysis and uses deductive reasoning, which of the two should he use?
Closed coding of cases
Open coding of cases
What 3 types of causal mechanisms did Charles Tilly identify?
Environmental, cognitive and relational
Environmental, historical, psychological
Relational, theoretical, correlational
Cognitive, relational and scientifical
Carl Gustav Hempel is known for his deductive-nomological model, which says that:
Every observation is explained if it can be deduced from a universal law
Every observation is explained if it can be induced from a universal law
No observation is explained if it is induced
Every observation is explained through retroduction
Coleman's Bathtub (1986) describes;
That bot macro and micro levels are important
That only micro level is important
That macro level is important
That macro condition has no effect on micro condition
Classical positivism is based on three tenets which are
Interpretation, laws, naturalism
Naturalism, empiricism, laws
Empiricism, solipsism, laws
Naturalism, empiricism, intuition
Karl Popper introduced the concept of
Verifiability of theory
Induction for theory generating
Falsifiability of theory
Scientific revolution
Thomas Kuhn is known especially for his concept of
Hard core of theory
Hypothetico-deductive model
Critical theory
Scientific revolution and paradigm
Which type of study suffers from false uniqueness or false universalism?
Small-N case study
Large-N case study
Single case study
Intermediate-N case study
Which one of these tries to bridge the gap between qualitative and quantitative research?
Single case study
Qualitative comparative analysis
Large-N case study
Event structure analysis
What is the main goal when conducting process tracing?
To identify a causal chain
To identify a correlation among countries
To identify a universal case
To identify a concept
Case selection is
Strategic
Probabilistic
Convenient
Useful
A researcher started researching the native people of Aboriginal Australians and while doing so, he adopted their customs, culture and did not inform them of the research. How would you best describe his position?
Participant observer
'going native'
Overt observer
He became a true Australian
Quantitative content analysis focuses on
Manifest content and frequency of words
Latent content and interpretation
The social construction of meanings
Establishing a causal chain
A statistically significant relationship without further explanation is
Statistically significant
Statistically and substantively significant
Not significant at all
Outside the confidence interval
Karl Popper's concept of falsifiability of a theory follows the logic of
Induction
Retroduction
Deduction
Abduction
The question whether there is an objective reality independent of the observer is a matter of
Ontology
Epistemology
Methodology
Reliability
Which one of these types of validity is based on judgement at first glance?
Face validity
Content validity
Criterion validity
Convergent validity
What does methodological triangulation mean?
Using different sources and types of data
Using different researchers to test your theory
Using different theories to test your conclusion
Using different research designs
What is the difference between a crisp set?
A measure for Truth Table which is coded as either absent or present
A measure for Truth Table which is coded as either interval from 0 to 1
A measure for Truth Table which is coded as an order of values
A measure for the crispiness
Cohort study is based on
Drawing a random sample every time and asking the same question
Drawing a random sample every time and asking different questions
Drawing a purposive sample every time and asking different questions
Drawing a random sample and observing one group over a long period of time
Snowball sampling refers to sampling on the basis of
Advertisements
Force
Getting references by an interviewee in hard to reach groups
Paying the interviewees
Reification of concepts refers to
Treating a concept as an actual object
Treating a concept as an ideal
Treating a concept as nominal
Treating a concept as ordinal
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