POL S 15 Lecture 4: Lecture 4
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Abstract: education (some college education) is related to liberal beliefs (belief that government should redistribute to help poor) Testable: californians who have completed at least two years of college were more likely to express support for the 2016 ballot proposition to continue higher income taxes on the wealthy (temporarily passed in 2012) Abstract: democracies are less likely to go to war with each other than with non-democracies. Testable: two countries (a dyad) in a given year that both score either a 1 or a. 2 (free) on the freedom house political liberties index are less likely to engage in an armed conflict with each other (armed conflict = involves more than. 1,000 battle deaths, is fought on each others" territories, each national government is a participant) than are two countries in a given year that do no both score a 1 or a 2 (free)
