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US GovtVanguard4
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is survey research? | gathering of information about public opinion by questioning a representative sample of the population |
| what is the halo effect? | tendency of survey respondents to provide socially acceptable answers to questions. |
| what are salient issues? | they are issues about which most people have an opinion |
| what is socialization? | the learning of a culture and its values |
| what is diffuse support (for the political system)? | goodwill toward governmental authority learned early in life. |
| what is a generation gap? | differences in politics and public opinion among age groups |
| what is a gender gap? | aggregate differences in political opinions between men and women |
| what is suffrage? | the legal right to vote |
| what is the white primary? | Democratic Party primary elections in many southern counties in the early part of the twentieth century that excluded black people from voting. |
| what are property qualifications? | Early american state reqiurement of property ownership in order to vote. |
| what are poll taxes? | taxes imposed as a prerequisite to voting; prohibtited by the 24th amendment |
| what is the literacy test? | its an examination of a person's ability to read and write as a prerequisite to voter registration, outlawed by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as discriminatory |
| what is the 19th amendment? | the 1920 constitutional amendement guaranteering woment the right to vote |
| what is the 26th amendment? | the 1971 constitutional amendment guaranteering 18 year olds the right to vote |
| what is the "Motor Voter Act"? | federal mandate that states offer voter registration at driver's licensing and welfare offices. |
| what is a turnout? | number of voters who actually cast ballots in n election, as a percentage of people eligible to register and vote. |
| what is registration? | requirement that prospective voters establish their identity and place of residence prior to an election in order to be eligible to vote |
| what is political alienation? | belief that politics is irrelevant to one's life and that one cannot personally affect public affairs. |
| what are protests? | public marches or demonstrates designed to call attention to an issue and motivate others to apply pressure on public officals. |
| what is civil disobedience? | form of public protest involving the breaking of laws believed to be unjust. |
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