Describe your theory about the political topic or problem that you selected for your pols literature review. it may you to review some of the published literature on your topic, so as to gain insight on various contending theories about the topic.

your theory about the topic in general will necessarily imply some specific, real-world outcomes that we could reasonably expect to observe if your theory is valid. those specific, real-world implications of your theory will produce testable hypotheses. scientifically valid hypotheses will combine both a dependent and an independent variable in an if-then statement.