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AP Gov Unit 2
Elections
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Political Efficacy | How citizens view their government and how they determine whther the system can change, help, or improve their lives |
| Political Socialization | The process by which we develop our political attitudes, values and beliefs |
| Political Socialization Biggest Impactor | Family |
| Selective Exposure | Choosing to only be exposed to opinions and politics matching your own ideals |
| 5 Core American Values | Individualism, Equality of Opportunity, Free Enterprise, Rule of Law, Limited Government |
| Life Cycle Events | Events that are likely to happen in your life that can affect your political ideals(ex: marriage, getting a job) |
| Generational Events | Events that happen once and affect a whole generation that impacted their political ideals |
| External Efficacy | How you feel about your government's ability to help, change, or improve your life |
| Internal Efficacy | Your willingness to participate in government |
| Issue Public | Small motivated political groups that are more powerful than large inactive groups |
| Attentive Public | People who pay attention to government very closely and will always show up to vote |
| Latency | Public opinion that exists as a potential. Issues that have a possibility of being embraced suddenly by large numbers because of an event(ex:scandals, attcks on national security) |
| Saliency | How important an issue is to a particular individual or group |
| Intensity | How strongly people feel about an issue |
| Stability | How long an issue lasts |
| Impacts of low stability in American politics | Policy creation takes longer than low stability issues exist and makes it irrelevant when an issue does pass |
| Polling | When pollsters ask small groups of Americans their opinions on political issues or candidates in order to get data to predict elections |
| Voting | Choosing a candidate to hold office-concrete, no margin of error |
| Benchmark Poll | A poll taken to see where a candidate stands before an election cycle begins |
| Horserace Journalism | Reporting that focuses only on polling reults and how good/bad a candidate is doing and not on relevant policy issues |
| Straw Polls | Polls taken about a specific policy issue after an event that has to do with that policy issue-least reliable and depends on people's emotions and biases |
| Entrance/Exit Polls | Polls taken from evry 10th or so person leaving the polling booth for an election-are most often used by news outlets to report on elections |
| Random Sampling/Scientific Polling | Randomly picking 1200-1500 people and polling them about candidates-uses stratified sample to be the most accurate |
| Margin of Error | + or - 3% in random sampling/scientific polling results |
| Stratified Sampling | Key variables covered(race, gender, income, education) are evenly distributed based on population |
| Tracking Polling | Polls to track how a candidate is doing over the course of an election |
| Iowa Straw Poll | Polls taken before the Iowa Caucus-not accurate or consistent |
| Libertarian Ideology | Government should not be involved in your individual choices unless it infringes on the rights of others |
| Cross-Cutting Cleavages(Demographics) | Demographic trends that break through social barriers and UNIFY people(religion, education) |
| Reinforcing Cleavages(Demographics) | Demographic trends that create DIVISION within a society(income) |
| Globalization | Trade and Technology have made the world more interdependent with both economics and social changes |
| Fiscal Policy | Policy on government spending and taxation to influence the economy |
| Republican Fiscal Policy | Republicans tend to support increased spending for things like military/defense |
| Democrat Fiscal Policy | Democrats tend to support increased spending for things like environment |
| Monetary Policy | Government's influence on economic activity |
| How Monetary Policy is Influenced | The Federal Reserve influences the economy by manipulating supplies of money, credit, and altering interest rates |
| Keynesian Economics | Governments give people mony to get them to spend it-liberal approach of a very hands-on government in the economy |
| Supply Side Economics | Government should stimulate the economy during times of recession with lower taxes, less regulation, and lower interest rates |
| Laissez-Faire Economics | Government should take no action during an economic crisis, the economy will fix itself-conservative approach |
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