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poly sci 7-8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| values | deeply held views, key components of political culture |
| cynical | untrusting and suspicious, especially of government |
| particpatory | interest or willingness to take part in politics |
| political competence | knowing how to accomplish something political |
| political efficacy | feeling that one has at least a little political input |
| subject | feeling among citizens that they should obey authority but not participate much in politics |
| parochial | narrow having little or no interest in politics |
| rule of anticipated reactions | politicians form policies based on how they think the public will react |
| turnout | percent of eligible voters who vote in a given election |
| secular | not connected to religion |
| subculture | a minority culture within the mainstream culture |
| mainstream | sharing the average or standard political culture |
| integration | merging subcultures into mainstream culture |
| francophone | a french speaker |
| marginalized | pushed to the edge of society and the economy, often said of the poor and subcultures |
| anglophone | an English speaker |
| socialization | the learning of culture |
| overt socialization | deliberate government policy to teach culture |
| Public opinion | citizens reactions to current specific issues and events |
| anecdotal | recounting the views of a view respondents |
| salience | literally, that which jumps out, the importance of given issues in public opinion |
| social class | a broad layer of society usually based on income and often labeled lower middle or upper |
| non-economic issues | questions relating to patriotism religion race sexuality and personal choice |
| economic issues | questions relating to jobs income taxes and welfare beneifits |
| regions | portions of a country with a sense of self and sometimes subcultural differences |
| anticlericalism | movement in catholic countries to get church out of politics |
| life cycle | theory that opinions change as people age |
| skewed | a distribution with its peak well to one side |
| unimodal | a single center-peaked distribution a bell shaped curve |
| bimodal | a distribution with two large clusters at the extremes and a small center |
| polarize | to drive opinion into a bimodal distribution |
| political generations | theory that great events of young adulthood permanently color political views |
| gender gap | tendency of American woman to vote more democratic then men do |
| survey | a public-opinion poll |
| quota | drawing a sample to match categories of the population |
| randomization | drawing a sample at random with everyone having with everyone having an equal chance of inclusion |
| sample | those persons to be interviewed in a survey a small fraction of a population |
| volatility | tendency of public opinion to change quickly |
| independent variable | the factor you think influences or causes something to happen |
| dependent variable | the factor that changes under the impact of independent variable |
| covariance | how much two factors change together indicating how strongly they are related |
| honeymoon | high support for presidents early in their terms |
| rally event | occurrence that temporarily boosts presidents support |
| attentive public | those citizens who follow politics especially national and international affairs |
| intensity | the firmness and enthusiasm with which an opinion is held |
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