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Ch.5 Vocab. Gov.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Public opinion | The distribution of individual preferences or evaluations of a given issue, candidate, or institution within a specific population. |
| suffrage | Legal right to vote |
| turnout | Number of voters who actually cast votes in an election as a percentage of people able to cast a vote. |
| political alienation | Belief that politics is irrelevant and that one cannot personally affect public affairs |
| "Motor Voter Act" | Federal mandate that states offer voter registration at driver's license and welfare offices |
| literacy test | Examination of a person's ability to read and right as a prerequisite to voter registration, outlawed by Voter's rights act as discriminatory. |
| poll taxes | Taxes imposed as prerequisite to voting, prohibited by 24th amendment. |
| socialization | The learning of a culture and its values. |
| white primary | Democratic Party primary elections in many southern counties in the early part of the twentieth century that excluded black people from voting. |
| generation gap | Differences in politics and public opinion among age groups |
| gender gap | Aggregate differences in public opinions between men and women |
| salient issues | Issues about which most people have an opinion |
| halo effect | Tendency of survey respondents to provide socially acceptable answers to questions |
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