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33 Cards in this Set
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high tech politics
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a politics in which the behavior of citizens and policymakers and the political agenda itself are increasingly shaped by technology
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mass media
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means of popular communication
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media events
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events purposely staged for the media that nonetheless look spontaneous
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press conference
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meeting of public officials with reporters
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investigative journalism
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the use of detective-like reporting to unearth scandals, scams, and schemes, putting reporters in adversarial relationships with political leaders
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print media
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newspapers and magazines
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broadcast media
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television and radio
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chains
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by 1994, more than 80 percent of america's daily newspapers were controlled by national and regional chains
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narrowcasting
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media programming on cable tv or the internet that is focused on one topic aimed at a particular audience
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beats
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specific locations from which news frequently emanates, such as congress or the white house, most top reporters work a particular beat, thereby becoming specialists in what goes on at that location
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trial balloons
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an intentional news leak for the purpose of assessing the political reaction
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sound bites
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short video clips of approximately 15 seconds; typically all that is shown from a politician's speech or activities on the nightly television news
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taking head
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a shot of a person's face talking directly to the camera. because this is visually unappealing, the major commercial networks rarely show a politician taking one-on-one for very long
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policy agenda
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the issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people actively involved in politics at the time
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policy entrepreneurs
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people who invest their political "capital" in an issue
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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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demography
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the science of human population changes
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census
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a valuable tool for understanding demographic changes. the constitution requires that the government conduct an "actual enumeration" of the population every 10 years
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melting pot
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the mixing of cultures, ideas, and people that has changed the american nation.
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minority majority
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the emergence of a non-Caucasian majority, as compared with a white, generally Anglo-Saxon majority
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political culture
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an overall set of values widely shared within a society
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reapportionment
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the process of reallocating seats in the house of representatives on the basis of the results of the census
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political socialization
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the process through which an individual acquires hi or her particular political orientation
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sample
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relatively small proportion of people who are chosen in a survey to be representative of the whole
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random sampling
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everyone should have an equal probability of being selected for the sample
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sampling error
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level of confidence in the finding of a public opinion poll
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random digit dialing
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technique used by pollsters to place telephone calls randomly to both listed and unlisted numbers when conducting a survey
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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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coherent set of beliefs about politics, public policy, and the public purpose
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gender gap
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regular pattern by which women are more likely to support democrats
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political participation
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activities used by citizens to influence the selection of political leaders or policies they persue
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protest
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political participation designed to achieve policy change through dramatic and unconventional tactics
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civil disobedience
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political participation that reflects a conscious decision to bread a law believed to be immoral and to suffer the consequences
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