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Public opinion |
How people think or feel about particular things |
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Poll |
Survey of public opinion |
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Random sample |
Method of selecting from a pop in which each person has an = probability of being selected Ex. Stratified or multistage area sampling: list of geo units by pop/ppl in units selected in prop to pop |
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Sampling error |
Diff bt the results of random samples taken at the same time |
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Exit polls |
Polls based on interviews conducted on election day w randomly selected voters |
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Opinion saliency |
Some ppl care more about issues that other ppl do |
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Opinion stability |
Some issues or choices, opinions are steady, while on others they are more volatile |
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Opinion-policy congruence |
Some issues govt seems in sync with pop view, while on others it seems to be out of sync |
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Political socialization |
Process by which background traits influence one's pol views |
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Genes affect political beliefs more than... |
Party affiliation |
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Elite |
People who have disproportionate amount of some valued resource -govt attends more to elite views -more likely to hold consistent set of beliefs |
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Young votes have a ----- sense of partisanship than older ones. |
Weaker |
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Participants in student radical movements in 60s |
Red-diaper 👶 |
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People that are more religious tend to vote |
Republican |
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Gender gap |
Difference in political views between men and women |
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Women have voted at somewhat higher rates since |
1980 (larger age of VAP) |
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Women are more likely to favor the ----- candidate |
Democratic |
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Public opinion and voting have been less determined by social class and the extent of class cleavage has |
Declined (US and Europe) |
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Differences in political opinion are closely associated with occupation |
Key |
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Unskilled workers are more likely to be |
Democrats (liberal view on economic policy) |
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AA are overwhelmingly |
Democratic |
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Political ideology |
A more or less consistent set of beliefs about that policies that government ought to pursue |
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Political elite |
Persons w disproportionate share of political power Activists (ideological consistency) |
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Elites state the norms by which issues should be settled |
Standard of right or proper conduct |
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(Initially) only ---- could vote |
Property-owning white males |
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VAP |
Citizens who are eligible to vote after reaching minimum age requirement |
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Young voters are mostly |
Nonvoters |
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VEP |
Citizens that have reached minimum age eligible to vote, excluding those who are not legally permitted to cast a ballot -voter turnout rate higher when measured this way |
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US is ranked ---- for voter turnout |
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Registered voters |
People who are registered to vote |
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Older Americans register and vote ---- than younger Americans |
More |
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Reasons for nonvoters |
1. Too busy 2. Family chores or obligations 3. Vote would make no difference |
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Registration is done ---- in European nations |
Automatically -burden falls onto indiv voter in US -fewer ppl registered here |
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Motor-voter law |
Allows ppl in states to register when applying for licenses and to provide reg through mail and at some state offices that serve the disabled or provide public assistance |
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Costlesd reg makes it so that ppl are ---- likely to vote |
Less |
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(Initially) ppl only chose the |
Members of the HoR |
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Australian ballot |
Government printed ballot of uniform dimensions to be cast in secret that many states adopted around 1890 to reduce voting fraud associated with party printed ballots cast in public |
