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Chapter 5
Government
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Public opinion | The collective attitude of citizens concerning a given issue or question. |
| TRUE regarding opinion polling | It is a modern invention dating only from the 1930's |
| The majoritarian model of democracy assumes that the public | holds clear and consistent opinions on government policies |
| Mode | The most frequent response to a survey question |
| Bimodal distribution | defined as a distribution of opinions that shows two responses being chosen with just about equal frequency. |
| Normal distribution | defined as a symmetrical bell-shaped distribution (of opinions) centered on the single most frequent response. |
| Stable distribution | When different questions on the same issue produce similar distributions of opinion, and opinions show little change over time, what kind of distribution is indicated? |
| Political socializaation | a complex process through which individuals become aware of politics, learn political facts, and form political values. |
| Structuring principle | says that whatever is learned first primarily acts to formulate later learning. |
| There are a number of agents of political socialization | Media,Family,Community |
| Freedom | People with higher incomes as well as those with higher education levels tend to favor |
| Region | Type of socialization agent demonstrated strong and important political differences for almost a hundred years, but has seen an equalization in recent decades that has greatly diminished these sharp differences? |
| Members of minority groups often differ from whites on issues that pertain to equality for two major reasons: | their low socioeconomic status and their history of prejudice and discrimination. |
| Protestants | religious group that tends to be the most conservative on issues of social order |
| The "gender gap" in today's politics indicates that women tend to | Vote for democrats |
| Ideology | the set of values and beliefs held about government, does influence public opinion on specific issues, but they disagree on the extent to which people think in these terms. |
| True ideologues | tend to hold consistent values and beliefs about the purpose and scope of government, and tend to evaluate candidates in ideological terms. |
| Liberals | group that tends to favor freedom over order as well as equality over freedom |
| Liberal–conservative continuum | simple distinction once represented a single dimension, describing a person's attitudes toward the scope of government activity, but is NOT very accurate or useful today |
| Collective opinion of the public | balances off random ignorance on both sides of an issue, can be interpreted as stable and meaningful. |
| Self-interest principle | concept suggests that people choose what benefits them personally |
| In making political decisions, many Americans use heuristics | mental shortcuts or cues that require little information. |
| Issue framing. | The way that politicians present issues, selectively invoking values or recalling certain events, is sometimes casually called "spin," but is more formally referred to by political scientists as |
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