POLS 390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Falsifiability, Systems Analysis, Null Hypothesis
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Whole woman"s health v hellerstedt (2016: texas mandated abortion clinics" elevated safety requirements, court questions whether there is a real problem or an undue burden as under. Webster: the opinion was that the state went too far to state that abortion was more problematic and dangerous to be factual but did not have evidence. Nc state conference of the naacp v mccrory: do voter id laws address a real problem or place a burden on minority voters on purpose, policy- analytical skills brought to bear on both. Theory observation: things you observe in the world; why they work the way they work, inductive (theory-testing) with your observations, deductive (theory-testing) with your observations, it is not science without both those things. Based on what is not what should be. Empirical social science research: to discover and verify general rules to explain why human beings behave the way they do bernstein & dier.
