Which state would call into question the hypothesis that democracies are the result of high levels of economic development?
a. India
b. Britain
c. China
d. Germany
e. Russia
Question 2
Deviant case studies are valuable because they
a. prove hypotheses.
b. explain why cases that do not fit the hypothesis being tested do not undermine the validity of the hypothesis.
c. can prove hypothesis wrong.
d. lead researchers to consider different explanations that they might have ignored if they had also ignored the deviant case.
e. apply findings to countries with very different values of the dependent variable.