Which of the Following Statements Best Describes the Relationship Between

question 2

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between public opinion and government policy?

• A)Public opinion always shifts in opposition to government policy once the policy has been implemented.
• B)Public opinion always shifts in favor of government policy once the policy has been implemented.
• C)Shifts in public opinion always lead to changes in government policy.
• D)Although there is no one-to-one correlation between public opinion and government policy, shifts in public opinion on particular issues frequently lead to changes in government policy.

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Definitions:

Focus Groups

Structured group discussions used to gather participants' attitudes, feelings, beliefs, and reactions to a specific subject or area of interest.

Experiments

Research procedures carried out under controlled conditions and based on the technique of manipulating one or more variables in hopes of observing an effect. Typically, an experimental condition is applied to one group, and the results are compared with those from another group (control group) that has had no experimental treatment.

Operationalization

The process of defining a fuzzy concept so as to make the concept measurable and to understand it in terms of empirical observations.

Hawthorne Effect

The effect that researchers themselves may have on an experimental group. The effect is named after an organizational study in which employees were found to be responding to the perceived interest of management rather than to the experimental condition itself.