Political Participation

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Political Opinion

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Views held by ordianry citizens taht are openly expressed.

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Influences of Political Opinions

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Ideology, group attachments, partisanship, and political culture.

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Political Ideology

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Liberal, Libertarian, Conservative, Populist.

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Party Identification

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Loyalty taht an individual places in a certain party, that rarely changes.

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Poltical Participation

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Voting, joining political parties, writing to officials, demonstrating for political causes, giving money to canidates.

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19th amendment

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gave women the right to vote.

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26th amendment

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18 years of age and older receive right to vote.

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Voter Turnout

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The proportion of persons of voting age who actually vote in a given election.

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Registration

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Forces voters to be registered to prevent one from voting more than once.

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Civic Duty

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Gelief of an individual taht civic and political participation is a responsibility of citizenship.

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Apathy

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General lack of concern in politics.

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Alienation

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Is the feeling of powerlessness, that the nation does not care about ones opinions.

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Prospective Voting

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Voter knows the issue of canidates and votes for canidate that matches what they think.

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Retrospective Voting

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Voting looking backwards, depending on the performance of the incumbent and his party. If pleased re-elect, if not other partys canidate.

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Campaign Activities

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working for a canidate or party, attending election rallies, contributing money, and wearing a button/ yard sign.

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Social Capital

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Face to face interactions among citizens in society.

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Social/Political Movements

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Movement to achieve change by people who feel the government is acting improperly.

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Political Party

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ongoing coalition of interests joined together in effort to get its canidates in public office.

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Party-Centered Politics

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the parties compete across the country election after election

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Canidate-Centered Politics

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Individual canidates create own strategies and form their own campaign organizations.

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Grassroots Party

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Political party organized at level of voters and depenedent on their support.

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Party Realignment

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A major event disrupts the established political order. A realignment has a lasting effect.

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Split Ticket

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A voter casts ballot for one of more candidates of each major party.

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Single Member Districts

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Canidate who gets the most votes in a district wins office.

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Proportional Representation

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Seats given based on percentage of popular vote that party receives

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Party Coalition

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Groups and interests that support a party.

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Service Relationship

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Party organizations assist canidates for office but have no power to push policy or require policy.

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Hard Money

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campaign funds directly to canidate

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Soft Money

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campaign funds given to parties rather than canidate.

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Hired Guns

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Professional consultants who help a canidate to run and win a campaign.

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Packinging

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Recasting a canidates image into an appealing image.

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Interest Group

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A set of individuals who promote a shared political interest.

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Economic Groups

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These are interest groups that are organized primarly for economic reasons but engage in political activity.

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Private Goods

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Benefits that can be directly granted to an indiviudal memeber.

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Material Incentive

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economic or other benefit that is used to atract group members.

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Business Groups

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Touch directly on business interests

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Labor Groups

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Promote policies taht benefit workers in general and union members in particular.

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Professional Groups

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most professions have lobbying associations

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Citizens Groups

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Individuals organized together to promote a cause in which they believe.

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Purposive Incentive

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An incentive based on cause the group seeks to promote.

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Collective Goods

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Benefits offered by groups as an incentive for membership but are also available to non-members.

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Free-rider problem

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Individuals receive the good even if they don't contribute to the group.

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Ideological Groups

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Broad agenda that derives from philosophical or moral position.

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Inside Lobbying

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Groupd efforts to develop and maintain close ties with policymakers.

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Outside Lobbying

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Bringing public pressure to bear on policymakers.

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Political Action Committee (PAC)

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Organization through which in interest group raises and distrubutes funds for election purposes.

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Partisan Press

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publishers openly took side on party issues.

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Objective Journalism

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Reporting on facts and reporting boths sides of the partisan issue.

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Interpretive Reporting

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Analyze and expalin the events rather than merely report them.

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Signaler Role

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Journalists believe their responsibility is to notify the public of events as soon as they happen.

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Agenda Setting

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The power of media through news coverage to focus people on certain issues.

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Common Carrier Role

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Political leaders can communicate with the public through media.

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Watch-dog Role

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Press is always ready to catch you for whatever you may do wrong.