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12 Cards in this Set
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Agenda setting |
makes some people about some issues rather than others |
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Issue Priming |
The criteria by which issues/politicians are evaluated |
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Framing |
May bias our thinking about politicians or certain issues |
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Spoil's system |
Who wins gets to give jobs to supporters. It's a form of corruption that the public supports because they are polarized. |
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Performance voting |
Voting on a candidate based on how they've done in the past |
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Issue voting |
Picking a candidate based on his position on a single issue or related set of issues |
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Median voter theorum |
As long as there is an odd number of voters the candidates will converge to the median voter's views |
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Retrospective voting |
Based on history |
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Perspective voting |
Based on promises |
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Majoritarian systems |
Reinforce stability at the expense of choice |
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Proportional systems |
offer more choice but lead to instability |
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Duverger's law |
Majoritarian systems favor strategic voting. This is why in these systems there are always few parties. |
