POL 51 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: British South Africa Company, Contact Hypothesis, Haitian Creole
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General patterns are not always helpful with specific instances. What explains foreign policy of post-cold war presidents? (n=4) Only four chances for observation -- not enough to test statistical. Fiorina, ch 4: i decided to visit the districts, to walk the same streets and travel the same roads as the congressional candidates, and to talk to some of the same people they talk to . We can go deeper into the individual cases. The island of hispaniola (n=2 countries -- haiti and dominican republic) If you examine multiple variables, the dominican republican consistently has a better quality of life than haiti. Environment is actually quite different between the two, although they are on the same island. Wind-bearing rains come from the east, which means wind goes from east to west -- dr has more rain. Haiti is steeper with less fertile soils. Haiti is more prone to deforestation and soil erosion. Possible hyp: different environments (iv) cause a different quality.
