If We Wanted to Determine Whether States That Pass Clean

question 78

Multiple Choice

If we wanted to determine whether states that pass clean air legislation (no smoking in public areas) are more likely to enact laws requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets than are states that had not passed clean air legislation,the unit of analysis would be

• A)the individual states.
• B)the individual acts of legislation.
• C)the passage or nonpassage of the clean air legislation.
• D)laws that influence motorcyclists and auto drivers.
• E)any law relating to both clean air legislation AND wearing helmets.

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