A court decision An election A bill An international conflict Your supervisor, who is the city manager, wants assistance to solve a government problem or requirement. They have asked you to conduct a research study of your choice.

Description 5-7 page APA paper, Research a current issue that relates to some aspect of government activity. The following are some examples: A court decision An election A bill An international conflict Your supervisor, who is the city manager, wants assistance to solve a government problem or requirement. They have asked you to conduct a research study of your choice. They want to find the best ways to support the problem or requirement. Your supervisor says that the research study can use qualitative or quantitative methodology. Benefits of each methodology include the following: A qualitative methodology will help to understand better the needed resources or funding level to support the problem or requirement. A quantitative methodology will help measure the variables in the problem or requirement. The following are suggested sources (but not limited to these) for finding government issues: Government Accountability Office Associated Press (AP) Pew Research Center Write a research paper addressing the following: State the main characteristic of the issue in 1 sentence. Describe some examples of data you may need about the issue or problem: Qualitative data examples include the following: Subject or participant interviews Researcher observations Court documents Case studies, and so on. Quantitative data examples include the following: Survey question answers (nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio data) Dependent variable data Independent variable data Proportion of justices supporting decision Numbers who voted on one side of issue or polling percentages Votes in legislature Numbers in the international community on one side of the issue, and so on. Write a hypothesis containing a dependent and independent variable for a quantitative research study. Compare and contrast what the two types of data (qualitative and quantitative) tell you by answering the following questions: How are they complementary? How do their findings conflict or speak to cross-purposes?