ABSTRACT
Applied research, on the other hand, is conducted to help solve practical problems or to help researchers and political scientists understand past behavior in order to guide them in their attempts at predicting future behavior. Applied researchers are concerned with developing theories about why something happened; they look for causal relationships. They conduct research in order to describe in detail what happened, how it happened, and why; in this way, they hope to be able to predict its happening again in the future.
