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Public Opinion
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The distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and policy issues
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Census
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A valuable tool for understanding demographic changes.
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Reapportionment
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The process of reallocating seats in the House of Reps every 10 years on the basis of the results of the census.
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Minority Majority
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The emergence of a non-caucasian majority. Predicted by 2060, all other cultures will outnumber white americans.
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Political Socialization
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Richard Dawson
The process through which an individual acquires his or her particular political orientations;knowledge,feelings |
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Random Sampling
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The key technique employed by sophisticated survey researchers, which operates on the principle that everyone should have an equal probability of being selected for the sample
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Exit Polls
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Public opinion surveys used by major media pollsters to predict electoral winners with speed and precision.
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Political Ideology
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A coherent set of beliefs about politics, public policy, and public purpose. It helps give meaning to political events, personalities, and policies.
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Liberalism
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political ideology in which advocates prefer a government active in dealing with human needs, support individual rights and liberties, and give higher priority to social needs than to military needs.
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Gender Gap
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A term which refers to the regular pattern by which women are more likely to support democratic candidates. Women tend to be significantly less conservative than men and are more likely to support spending on social services and to oppose the higher levels of military spending
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Political Participation
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All activities used by citizens to influence the selection of political leaders or the policies they pursue. The most common means of political participation in a democracy is voting. Also, Protest+Civil Disobediences.
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Conservationism
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Political Ideology whose advocates fear growth of government, deplore government drag on private sector initiatives, dislike permissiveness in society
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