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Possible Research Questions

Below is a list of research questions you can use to guide your research project. These are all questions that can be answered using the States_Student.sav SPSS dataset located in the Research Paper Resources section. Please remember that the question you choose will be the focus of your research paper and all related assignments over the course of the term.

Please choose your top 3 questions from this list and include them in the Module 1: Week 1 Discussion.

Tax policy:

1. What is the relationship between cigarette taxes and the percentage of the states population who smoke? Or, do higher cigarette taxes discourage smoking?

2. What is the relationship between citizen education and cigarette taxes? Or, do states with higher levels of overall citizen education have higher or lower cigarette taxes?

3. What is the relationship between the partisan makeup of the state legislature and cigarette taxes?

4. What is the relationship between the percentage of female legislatures and cigarette taxes? Or, do states with a higher percentage of female legislators have higher cigarette taxes?

5. What is the relationship between the partisan makeup of the state legislature and cigarette taxes?

Abortion policy:

1. Do states with higher percentages of pro-life residents have more restrictive abortion laws than states with lower percentages of pro-life residents?

2. What is the relationship between the percentage of a state’s population that is pro-choice and the percentage of the state legislature that is Democratic?

3. What is the relationship between citizen education and abortion restrictions?

4. What is the relationship between the percentage of female legislatures and restrictive abortion laws? Or, do states with a higher percentage of female legislators have less restrictive abortion laws?

5. What is the relationship between the partisan makeup of the state legislature and abortion restrictions?

6. What is the relationship between the percentage of the public who consider themselves pro-choice and the percentage who consider themselves conservative?

Voting behavior:

1. What is the relationship between the percentage of the state’s population who frequently attend religious services and the percentage of the vote Obama received?

2. What is the relationship between the percentage of the state that considers themselves conservative and the percentage of the vote Obama received?

3. What is the relationship between the percentage of the workforce that is unionized and the percentage of the vote Obama received?