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US GovtVanguard
review ch 5 Gov
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is Public opinion? | The aggregate of preferences and opinions of individuals on significant issues |
| Define Survey Research | Gathering of information about public opinion by questioning a representitive sample of the population |
| Halo effect | Tendency of survey respondents to provide socially acceptable answers to questions |
| Salient issue | Issues about which most people have an opinion |
| what is political pluralism | political theory of group competition |
| Public Goods | Commodities (products,services) characterized by non-rivalry and non-excludability |
| What are Broad Public Interest groups? | beset by colective-action problems, weakening their efectiveness at influencing government |
| Subgovernment(e.g. Iron Triangles) | collusive, mutually beneficial arrangement between government agencies, members of important congressional committees, and interest groups |
| Issue Network | a collective of several political actors(e.g. interest groups, elected officials, agency personnel, media, think tanks and policy experts, etc.) who consistently participate in the policymaking process of a policy area |
| Socialization | the learning of a culture and its value |
| diffuse support (for the politcal system) | good will toward governmental authority learned early in life |
| Generation Gap | Differences in political and public opinion among age groups |
| property qualifications | Early american state requiremnt of property ownership in order to vote |
| White Primary | Democractic Party primary elections in many southern elections in many Southern countries in the early part of the twentieth century that excluded black people from voting |
| poll taxes | Taxes imposed as a prerequisite to voting; prohibited by the 24th Amendment |
| Literacy test | Examination of a person's ability to read and write as a prereqisite to voter registration, outlawed by voting Rights Act (1965) as disciminatory |
| 19th Amendment | the 1920 constitutional amendment guaratneeing woman the right to vote |
| 26th Amendmant | the 1971 constitutional amandement guaranteeing the right to vote |
| Motor voter act | Federal manadate that states offer vote registration at driver's liscensing and welfare offices |
| Turn Out | Number of voters who actually cast ballots in an election, as a percentage of people eligible to register and vote |
| registration | Requirement that prospective voters establish their identity and place of residence prior to an election in order to be eligible to vote |
| political alienation | belief that politics is irrelevant to one's life and that one connot personally affect public affairs |
| Protests | Public marches or demonstrations designed to call attention to an issue and motivate others to apply pressure on public officials |
| civil disobedience | Form of public protest involving the breaking of laws believed to be unjust |
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