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American Gov Quiz 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How why is voting central to our founding? | We withdraw authority from bad leaders through elections |
| What are the 3 expansion waves in voting? | Suffrage for non-wealthy white men, suffrage for women, Civil Rights/Vietnam War |
| Rationale for suffrage for non-wealthy white men | Revolutionary War |
| Why did black voting not significantly increase after the Civil War amendments? | Jim Crow era |
| What DID increase black voting rates? | Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act |
| What are the two main costs of voting? | Informational costs and tangible costs |
| What are informational costs? | Time, energy spent accumulating information |
| What are tangible costs? | Gas to get to the polls, time off from work |
| Theories on why people vote | Civic duty, expressive value, social bonds |
| Civic duty | I value democracy, democracy doesn’t exist without voting |
| Expressive duty | I value the outcome, I vote to affirm my attachment to that outcome |
| Individual Factors in voting | Duration of time in location, Strength of partisanship, Trust in government, Age, Race, Education, Income, Gender? |
| Institutional Factors | More onerous restrictions gone (Poll taxes/Literacy tests), Registration laws, Early voting, Mail-in ballots, Voter ID |
| People Don’t Vote Because... | They can’t, they don’t want to, nobody asked (Campaigns, election officials, social networks) |
| Examples of heuristics | Partisanship, social groups, salient issues, media, candidate characteristics |
| Salient issues | some issues become very important and one candidate/party is evaluated more favorably on it |
| Media can shape | Which issues are more salient, focus attention on some candidates more than others |
| Retrospective voting is shaped by | Economic considerations (unemployment/prices), security, disruptions to daily life |
| Prospective voting is shaped by | Trajectory of the economy, campaign promises |
| Why are campaigns the biased storytellers? | Help voters overcome the information gap, provide voters tools to turn out and vote |
| Why are campaigns pragmatic? | They don’t need to win over everyone, engage in both persuasion and turnout |
| What are goals of campaign? | Getting out the message, cultivating a positive candidate image, gaining media attention, attacking the opposition |
| public financing create | greater equality but less freedom |
| private financing create | less equality but more freedom |
| Hard money | Raised by candidates, subject to some limits and reporting requirements |
| Soft money | Raised by “independent” groups (ex: political parties), no reporting or limits |
| When does Money Matter? | where there is less money |
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