Ap Gov Chapter 7 Vocab

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Alienation

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A feeling of personal powerlessness that includes the notion that government does not care about the opinions of people like oneself

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Apathy

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A feeling of personal disinterest in or unconcerned with politics

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Civic Duty

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The belief of an individual that civic and political participation is a responsibility of citizenship

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Political Participation

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Involvement in activities intended to influence public policy and leadership such as voting joining political parties and interest groups writing to elected officials demonstrating for political causes and giving money to political candidates

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Prospective Voting

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A form of electoral judgment in which voters choose the candidate whose policy positions most closely match their own preferences

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Registration

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The practice of placing citizens names on the official list of voters before they are eligible to exercise their right to vote

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Retrospective Voting

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A form of electoral judgment in which voters support the incumbent candidate for party when its policies are judged have succeeded and oppose the incumbent party or candidate won its policies are judged to a field

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Social Capital

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The sum of the face to face interactions among citizens in the society

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Social Movements

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Active and sustained efforts to achieve social and political change by groups of people who feel that government has not been properly responsive to their concerns

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Suffrage

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The right to vote

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Voter turnout

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