Question one:
The protests in Ferguson, MO were sparked by many things, and it’s hard to determine all the factors that led to the protest through quantitative data. There are many variables that contribute to a protest like the ones demonstrated in Ferguson. As a researcher who would like to find the reasons why the protests were started and how they were sustained over several weeks and months, the best way would to take a qualitative approach. For this particular protest I would recommend “going native” because this protest was fast moving and being an “alien” may have been difficult. There were reports that the press was being seen as outsiders and part of the problems. They were being hit with rocks, food, and other materials protesters found. So the alien approach may not be the best one, due to the fact asking question …show more content…
Among the five variables the transparency of elections and the ability for all citizens to exercise their right to vote have the strongest relationship. One possible explanation for this relationship is that if everyone has the right to vote then that increases accountability, and when accountability is increased then the demand or the expectation of transparent elections grows. This correlation table also shows that the ability for citizens to access the internet and their ability to exercise the right to vote registers a weak relationship. Although countries that allow free access to the internet are usually democratically leaning and that usually means their citizens have the exercise the right. There may be a better variable that measures citizen’s ability to vote. That doesn’t mean that just because this relationship is weak that it isn’t significant. The asterisk next to the numbers in the correlations table tells the research the importance of a particular relation. That is how I determined the level of importance in the relationships I have chosen to