Reference no: EM133339999

Assignment:

(Strictly in relevance to the article below, but not based of off as I have to write a research paper which should challenge the article's ideas)

Soss, Joe. "Lessons of Welfare: Policy Design, Political Learning, and Political Action" The American Political Science Review, Vol. 93, No. 2 (Jun., 1999), pp. 363-380. 1999. Print.

Research Question - What is the relationship between welfare recipients and their involvement in political activism?

Hypothesis 1 - The effect of education and its relation to political involvement

Hypothesis 2 - Welfare recipients are too withdrawn and dependent to shoulder the burden of political activism

Please give as much detail and explanation as possible :)

1. How can a descriptive inference be developed that provides a useful way to conceive, describe or interpret some relevant aspect of politics OR How can the causal inference test causal relationships presented by the author?

2. What qualitative methodology can be used? How is that justified through the article?

3. Would a more positivist or interpretivist approach make more sense? Why?

4. What is the academic as well as the real-world significance of the research question with the article?

5. What would the case-selection strategy be? Why is the case worth examining?

6. What would be the possible strengths and weaknesses of that research design as well as case selection?

7. Is the unit of analysis for an independent variable different from the dependent variable? Why?

8. What would the causal mechanism (the logic of the pathway) between the independent and dependent variables be?