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Ch 6 Public Opinion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The distribution of the population’s beliefs about politics and policy issues. | public opinion |
| A valuable tool for understanding demographic changes. Required to be taken every 10 years by the const. | census |
| The process of reallocating seats in the House every 10 years on the basis of the results of the census. | reapportionment |
| A relatively small proportion of people who are chosen in a survey so as to be representative of the whole. | sample |
| he key technique employed by sophisticated survey researchers, which operates on the principle everyone should have an equal probability of being selected for the sample. | random sample |
| The level of confidence in the findings of a public opinion poll. The more people interviewed, the more confident one can be of the results. | sampling error |
| A techniques used by pollsters to place telephone calls randomly to both listed and unlisted numbers when conducting a survey | random digit dialing |
| Public opinion surveys used by major media pollsters to predict electoral winners with speed and precision | exit poll |
| A coherent set of beliefs about politics, publish policy, and public purpose. It helps give meaning to political personalities, and policies. | political ideology |
| A conscious decision to break a law believed to be immoral and to suffer the consequences. EX- Sit ins in the 1960's | civil disobediance |
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