Imagine That a Scholar Wants to Develop a Measure of Preelectoral

Multiple Choice

Imagine that a scholar wants to develop a measure of preelectoral coordination among parties in democracies. If she thinks about the level of preelectoral coordination between any two parties as going from running independently at one extreme to merging into a single party at the other extreme, then is she conceptualizing preelectoral coordination in terms of a dichotomy or a continuum?

A) Dichotomy
B) Continuum