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29 Cards in this Set
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Horgan: becoming involved is_____.
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Incremental
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Horgan: What Provides the general preconditions for terrorism?
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Situations
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What are the conditions from being a terrorist?
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Social, economic, feeling of being a part of something, social pressure, inspiration from role model.
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Are the conditions sufficient?
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They are necessary but not sufficeint because they affect people differently.
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Situations interact with dispositions to make what?
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Particular individuals susceptible to terrorist messages.
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What is the earliest model of voting behavior? Developed by?
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Index of Political Predisposition; lazarsfield & Berelson
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What kind of view is IPP?
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Higly Situationist
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The IPP was intended to do what?
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Predict outcome of election by knowing the socio-economic status, religion, etc. of voter
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Voting was seen as what?
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Function of the social Environment
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What does the phrase voting for pigs mean?
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-Strong Dems(ie Mass) would vote for a pig if its Dem
-Same for Rep. and 2 main parties in the UK |
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The party ID Approach is also known as what?
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Michigan Model
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Who developed the Party ID Approach?
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Campbell (The American Voter)
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What do voters develop?
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a lond term psychological attachment (party ID) in their formative years. Not likley to change
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The long term factors interact with short-term ones (ie cand. issues) to produce what?
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the electoral result
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Why don't the candidate matter much?
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Voters screenout unfavorable info about their party candid. (ie. Quayle 1992, Kerry 2004)
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What is the rival to Party ID Approach? Who created it?
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Issue Voting Approach; Nie, Verba, Petrocik "the changing American voter"
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Less voters have what?
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Party ID (dealignment)
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What percent of voters are Independant
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40%
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Why is it said that voters are more sophistocated?
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They vote on issue and candidates. People don't organize their thinking along neat conservative/liberal lines, but they do have attitude constraints
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What are the 2 ways in which voters may vote?
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Prospectivly or Retrospectively
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What does it mean to vote Prospectively? Retrospectively?
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-Based on present circumstances
-Based on past performances |
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There is now substantial literature which applies cognitive psychology to what? What type of view is this?
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Voter Choice; Dispositionist
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WHo discovered that there is a persidential prototype or schema?
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Miller
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voters judge candidates according to what?
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how well they match the characteristics of that prototype.
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Are characteristics of schema stable?
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Yes
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How does the importance of particular characteristics vary?
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It varies from election to election
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What are 2 yaws in which voters can assess candidates?
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Online procession v. memory based models
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What is online processing? What do voters do as cognitive misers?
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Lodge suggest that voters keep a running tally; they discard the info. which led them to theri judgement, but retain their overall assessment
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What is memory base model? What do they suggest? What do we do on election day?
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Feldman and Zaller; that we keep info about cand. in long term memory; we put it together and make a judgement
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