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American Democracy
Study guide for test 2 (chapters 5-7)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Public Opinion | The collected attitudes of citizens concerning a given issue or question. |
| Characteristics of Public Opinion | Place boundaries on allowable public policy, government tend to respond to public opinion, government sometimes doesn't want what the people want. |
| Political Socialization | The complex process by which people acquire their values. |
| How political socialzation occurs? | Family, Community and Peers, and Continuing socialization |
| How different social groups differ on order and equality | Levels of education, household income, region of US, ethnic group, religion, and gender |
| What are the ideology types and how do they place on the freedom, order, and equality matrix? | Liberals - (EFO) Conservatives - (OFE) Libertarians - (FEO) Communitarians - (EOF) |
| Federal Communications Commission | An independent federal agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, telephone, and more. |
| Equal Time or Opportunities Rule | US radio and television broadcast stations must provide an equivalent opportunity to any opposing candidate that requests it |
| Right of Rebuttal | States that a person who is attacked on public television or radio must be given a chance to respond to the attack on the air |
| Near v. Minnesota | Prohibits prior restraint to violate freedom of the press as its protected under the First Amendment. |
| Political Participation | Action of private citizens by which they seek to influence or support government and politics |
| Conventional Participation | Relatively routine behavior that uses the established institutions of representative government, especially campaigning for candidates and voting in elections |
| Unconventional Participation | Relatively uncommon behavior that challenges or defies established institutions or the dominant culture (stressful to participants and their opponents) |
| Effectiveness of unconventional participation | Does work, even though it may provoke violence. |
| Direct political Action | unconventional participation that involves assembling crowds to confront local government to demand a hearing. Appeals most to those who both distrust the political system and have a strong sense of political efficacy. |
| Supportive Behaviors | Action that expresses allegiance to government and country (Pledge of Allegiance) |
| Influencing Behaviors | Behavior that seeks to modify or reverse government policy to serve political interests. Broad policy objectives influence behaviors. |
| 15tth, 19th, and 26th Amendment | African American men have the right to vote (1870,15), Women have the right to vote (1920,19), Reduced the voting age (1971,26) |
| Voting rights Act of 1965 | Prohibits racial discrimination in voting (15th amendment) |
| Who is most likely to vote? | people with more education, higher income, white collar, profesional occupations, |
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