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Political scientists define “the circumstances, topics, policies, or other phenomena that they want to understand as dependent variables”. For instance, when a researcher likes to investigate the reasons for a failing policy, the dependent variable of the study is “the failure of the policy”. Another study may attempt to find an answer why a specific country has suffered from several multiple coups, the dependent variable of the study is “the occurrence of several coup attempts in that country”. There exist multiple factors that influence the dependent variable of a study which is called as independent variables. Independent variables may cause some changes on the dependent variable.