Fallon et al. (2012) report another interesting finding: “Our findings support the claim that a left party in power has the strongest effect in countries with low levels of democracy.” (p. 399) This implies that as nations become more democratic, left parties in power have weaker effects. Imagine that in order to better understand the progress of left parties and their gender ideologies the authors undertake an analysis of the personal journals of highly active leftist politicians. What methodological challenge resonates most with the proposed data collection scheme?
a. Feelings from the past may be hard to reconstruct.
b. Written records bias toward those prone to write.
c. Available evidence may represent sample bias.
d. Documents and other evidence lost or damaged.
e. All of these.
