By W. Lawrence Neuman
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Community leaders concerned about quality of life issues in Saskatoon were active throughout the study. They incorporated four knowledge-translation strategies: regularly engage the local media (newspaper and television), conduct several community forums, create a Saskatoon Quality of Life Steering Committee with several community organizations, and employ an action researcher who would be a policy entrepreneur (advocate for starting new policies). Community members participated in research design, data collection, and data analysis-interpretation.
Among nonracist Whites, support for the death penalty is similar to levels found among African Americans. The authors briefly discussed theory, but they used theories for only general ideas and primarily described the characteristics of death penalty supporters. They did not directly test any theories or use them to create an explanation (see the next section). purpose of explanatory research. It builds on exploratory and descriptive research and goes on to identify the reason something occurs (see Example Box 6, Explanatory Research).
Legal rulings have recognized the treaty rights of AmerIndian people, meaning that gaming laws did not apply to AmeriIndian lands. When a new casino was proposed for downtown Rochester, New York, Kent (2004) was commissioned to conduct a social impact study. Like most reports of social impact studies, it was not published in a scholarly journal. The report estimated that the proposed casino would add 1,300 new jobs to the city. New York state could earn an additional $23 million per year, and the city of Rochester about $11 million in tax revenues from casino operations.