political correlations

Each student will write a paper of 6 pages minimum length, double-spaced.  The paper must include the following essential ingredients:  a) a theoretical argument describing how  one  or  more  variables  should  be  related,  b)  one  or  more  testable  hypotheses  speci-fying  how  those  variables  are  related,  c)  a  description  of  the  data  to  be  used  to  test  the hypotheses, including descriptions of how the variables are conceptualized, operationalized, and measured, and why the chosen measures are appropriate (if the data is not yet collected, discuss how one might go about collecting the data), and d) a discussion of the statistical test that would be most appropriate when analyzing the data. more instructions are provided in an attachment below.