Obtain a copy of M. Steven Fish s article, Islam and Authoritarianism from the journal World Politics 55, 1 (2002): 4-37 using your college s or university s library resources. Read the article. What is Fish s dependent variable?
A) Democracy
B) War
C) Civil War
D) Economic Development
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Obtain a copy of M. Steven Fish s article, Islam and Authoritarianism from the journal World Politics 55, 1 (2002): 4-37 using your college s or university s library resources. Read the article. What is the main independent variable?
A) Economic development
B) oil reliance
C) whether a country is predominantly Muslim or not
D) whether a country is a former British colony or not
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Obtain a copy of M. Steven Fish s article, Islam and Authoritarianism from the journal World Politics 55, 1 (2002): 4-37 using your college s or university s library resources. Read the article and then answer. What is the main hypothesis of this article?
A) Wealthy countries have higher levels of democracy
B) Islamic countries have higher levels of democracy
C) Islamic countries have lower levels of democracy
D) More oil reliant states have lower levels of democracy
E) More oil reliant states have higher levels of democracy
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Obtain a copy of M. Steven Fish s article, Islam and Authoritarianism from the journal World Politics 55, 1 (2002): 4-37 using your college s or university s library resources. Read the article. What evidence would falsify the main hypothesis?
A) Islamic countries have a higher level of democracy
B) Islamic countries have a lower level of democracy
C) Wealthy countries have a lower level of democracy
D) Oil reliant states have a higher level of democracy
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Obtain a copy of M. Steven Fish s article, Islam and Authoritarianism from the journal World Politics 55, 1 (2002): 4-37 using your college s or university s library resources. Read the article. Fish examines several arguments about why Islam might be bad for democracy. What are they?
A) a. Muslim societies are prone to violence
B) b. Muslim societies have lower levels of interpersonal trust
C) c. Muslim societies are less secular
D) d. Muslim societies subordinate women
E) e. Answers a. and b.
F) f. Answers b. and c.
G) g. Answers a. b. c. and d.
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Obtain a copy of M. Steven Fish s article, Islam and Authoritarianism from the journal World Politics 55, 1 (2002): 4-37 using your college s or university s library resources. Read the article. According to Fish's findings (not the theories), what is the reason why Islamic countries have lower levels of democracy?
A) Muslim societies are more prone to violence
B) Muslim societies are less secular
C) Muslim societies subordinate women
D) Muslim societies have lower levels of interpersonal trust
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Obtain a copy of M. Steven Fish s article, Islam and Authoritarianism from the journal World Politics 55, 1 (2002): 4-37 using your college s or university s library resources. Read the article. Given his dependent variable, what sign (positive or negative) does Fish predict for the coefficient on his primary explanatory variable?
A) positive
B) negative
C) positive or negative
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Obtain a copy of M. Steven Fish s article, Islam and Authoritarianism from the journal World Politics 55, 1 (2002): 4-37 using your college s or university s library resources. Read the article. What sign (positive or negative) does Fish find for the coefficient on his primary explanatory variable? Hint: see Table 3, column 1 on page 13.
A) positive
B) negative
C) positive or negative
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One of the conclusions that Fish reaches is that Islam is antithetical to democracy because women are not treated equally in Islamic countries. He reaches this conclusion while using Freedom House as his measure of democracy. Why might it be problematic to use Freedom House to examine the impact that the unequal treatment of women in Islamic countries has on democracy? What is the most appropriate answer below. Find the complete list of questions that are used to create a country s Freedom House score by going to http://www.freedomhouse.org/. Identify which questions make it problematic to use Freedom House scores to test Fish s statement that Islam is bad for democracy because of its unequal treatment of women.
A) Because Freedom House is a bad measure of democracy
B) Because Freedom House is a measure of freedom and not democracy
C) Because a country's Freedom House score is partially determined by how equally women are treated.
D) Because a country's Freedom House score does not take account of how equally women are treated