Research paper
research question: What can motivate the views of people about the laws that limit their voting rights and how do these laws affect people?
IT IS DONE STEP BY STEP, SEE ALL ASSIGNMENTS BELOW:
Assignment 4–Literature Review
MAJOR ASSIGNMENT — DUE 3/25
In this assignment, you will write the literature review section of your research paper. As we will cover, literature reviews are thematic, organized around ideas and not individual sources. Your literature review should include three or four themes. These themes will address one possible answer to your research question and should come from the last part of the previous assignment.
In the previous assignment, you will have identified which sources you should discuss in each theme. Each theme should be between one and two pages, for an overall length of about five pages (more or less). If it makes things easier, imagine you are writing three or four little papers, each one answering the research question. For example, in my paper, the first theme would be: how do Erikson and Tedin, Lewis-Beck (and others), and Smith show that ideology helps us understand Republican opinions on climate change? Your literature review should reflect the following:
Organization is around themes that provide potential answers to the research question.
Each theme includes an argument (for example: Even among Republicans, increasing liberalism leads to thinking climate change is more important). These arguments will become testable hypotheses in the data analysis.
The literature review as a whole includes citations for all ten sources. Note that sources can be cited multiple times and in multiple themes, but you do not have to cite all ten sources in each theme.
Finally, please include a properly formatted reference section at the end of your literature review.
Assignment 5–Identifying My Data
MINOR ASSIGNMENT — DUE 4/8
This assignment begins to get to the nuts and bolts of the research. At this point, you should have:
A dependent concept: the thing you’re trying to explain
Three or four independent concepts: the things that do the explaining
I asked all of you to turn your preferred topic into a public opinion question so that I could help you obtain and analyze the data. For most of you, hopefully, you will be able to use easily analyzed data from the 2016 American National Election Study through an online program called SETUPS. I will provide separate instructions for accessing and using SETUPS. Only for topics that are very recent, like COVID, will you need to use a more recent survey. For those projects, students will use the 2020 American National Election Study, which will have to be analyzed in Microsoft Excel. I will help you identify which dataset you need prior to this assignment being due.
For the assignment itself, you will go through the codebook of the appropriate dataset and identify the variable/survey question that you will use as your dependent variable and the three or four variables/questions you will use as your independent variables. Your assignment needs to include a description of the variable, its name, and it number in the codebook. The separate instructions will clarify this.
Assignment 6–Data & Methods
MAJOR ASSIGNMENT — DUE 4/14
The Data and Methods section of a research paper is essentially the instruction manual to how you generated the results that you present later in the paper. The section should provide enough detail that anyone could read it and replicate your results using the same data you use. There is no page limit for this assignment, but it will probably be less than two pages. The Data and Methods section needs to include the following:
A description of the data that are analyzed. Your description of the data should include the source or sources of the data and a full description of the sample including the unit of analysis and, as applicable, the time period covered, the geographic region covered, and other details as appropriate. A description of the data will be in the codebook for the dataset you use for your research (either the ANES 2016 or ANES 2020).
A description of the dependent variable including a definition and how the variable is measured and/or coded.
A description (definitions and coding) of every independent variable included in the analysis. You must include at least three independent variables. Your independent variables should be drawn from the last few assignments.
A hypothesis for each independent variable. Hypotheses will be drawn from the discussion in your literature review.
Finally, you are to state how the data are analyzed and how the hypotheses are tested. For all of you, data will be analyzed and hypotheses tested using ordinary least squares regression.
Assignment 7–Results & Discussion
MAJOR ASSIGNMENT — DUE 4/29
In this assignment, you will report on the results of your quantitative analyses and provide a draft of the Results and Discussion sections of your research paper. You will be given instructions either on how to use SETUPS or on how to estimate a regression in Microsoft Excel, depending on the data you use. The Results section of your assignment will begin with a table of your regression results and continue with the interpretation of those results. Specifically:
Present your results table, labeled “Table 1: Regression Results for Y” (replace “Y” with your dependent variable). This table includes the results of your ordinary least squares regression. This table must be formatted as follows:
You will have four columns labeled: “Variable”, “Coefficient”, “Standard Error”, and “p-value”.
Each row will pertain to one independent variable.
In the Variable column, you will write the name of the variable (not the short name used in the data analysis program, but a descriptive name, like “Party Identification”).
In the Coefficient column, you will place the coefficient from your output, rounded to three decimal places.
In the Standard Error column, you will place the standard error associated with that coefficient rounded to three decimal places.
In the p-value column, you will place the p-value associated with each coefficient rounded to three decimal places. If your p-value is less than 0.001 when rounded, you will list it as “p
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