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58 Cards in this Set
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Hitler youth |
German youth organization who's purpose was to turn into Nazis |
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Hegemonic theory |
To manipulate values and propagate support for a regime |
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Young pioneer |
Russian youth organization who's role was yo indoctrinate children into communist idealisms |
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Systems theory |
Is the idea that to gain support for a political system the family should install values to be successful into the children which is compounded each generation. |
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Diffuse support |
is critical to the long term maintenance and stability of the political system. The support of the political system itself or one of its part. People support the system when they see it as legitimate. |
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Coercion |
- or force is a way for regimes to garner support and strengthen the political system. Mostly when the regime cannot gain support compliance by providing a particular standard of living to the governed. |
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Micro level socialization |
variations in the process of socialization that occur for each individual. |
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Specific support |
Direct act of support to specific politician or towards a preferred party |
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Peer groups |
an agent of socialization that reinforce the value systems taught by the family and the schools |
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Socialization process |
the process of socialization we learn about our culture, its norms, traditions values and acceptable behavior. |
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Conformity |
Proper behaviour and values |
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Party preference |
Party identification duh |
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Direct value transfer |
when values with a direct political context such as party identification or policy ideals are passed through socialization |
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Respect for authority |
A proper behaviour and value |
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Macro level socialization |
Produces broad diffuse support that is necessary for a political system |
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Pledge of allegiance |
A way the USA propagates loyalty to the country |
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Primacy principle |
The values the we learn earliest in life are the ones that stick with us into adulthood |
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Phases of socialization |
Childhood Adolescence Adulthood |
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Structuring principle |
values that we learn earliest in life help us structure or assimilate new or competing ideas into our existing values |
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Early childhood |
critical in the concept of direct value transfer and socialization. Any regime should focus their efforts on the youngest members of society to make the most lasting impact. |
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Mobilizable public |
- collection of individuals who pay attention to the issues and express their opinions in a meaningful way. |
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Ideological public |
ideological public- a collection of individuals who are attentive to and are mobilized over any issue that relates to its ideology. Examples of these groups are the libertarian party and earth first. |
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General public |
Apathetic Attentive Mobilizable |
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Single issue public |
collection of individuals who are attentive and mobilize to a single issue or a narrow scope of issues such as the NRA, PETA, or MAAD. |
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Electoral issues |
- distribution of opinions is the most important aspect of electoral issues , opinions can be unstable |
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Relative sizes of publics |
relative sizes of the apathetic, attentive, and mobilizable publics vary according to the visibility of the issue. As the visibility diminishes the size of the apathetic increases and the size of the attentive and mobilizable decrease. |
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Skewed distribution of opinions |
Or a j curve distribution. Where the majority strongly agree |
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Response of government |
Government cannot respond to attitudes that are not expressed |
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Normal distribution of opinions |
Or bell curve. Where majority is undecided |
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Bimodal distribution of opinions |
Is a split between two majority popular opinions |
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Political trust |
Degree of political trust has eroded dramatically |
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Valence issues |
Not about any specific issue but concerned with the general direction of a political system |
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Perceptions of presidential job performance |
Valence issues are the most important part of successful perceived performance |
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Positional issues |
Distribution of opinions has less effect on policy issues |
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Cadre party system |
A party system dominated by the political elite concerned with contesting elections and restricting influence of outsiders. The party system in the first party era would be considered a cadre party system. |
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Jacksonian era |
A period in the united states when modern mass participatory democracy and modern political parties first emerged. |
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Federal structure of american two party system |
A dominant two party system where levels of political parties mimic the structure of the federal structure of our central government. |
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The party in government |
- political parties exist to allow people who don’t have a lot of money to have say on policy making because without political parties it would be limited to those who have enough money to participate. |
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The party in the electorate |
Political parties attempt to capture government by getting their chosen candidates elected to office to pursue that party’s platform. By winning elections political parties can take over government. |
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The party organization |
Political parties organize like minded people who agree on what government should and should not do and what issues are of most importance |
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Systems of proportional representation |
Has a Lot of minor and third parties |
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Closed primary |
Occurs when only registered voters of that specific party are allowed to participate |
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Split ticket voting |
Voting for a Republican president and a Democrat senator |
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Electoral college |
The last example of indirect voting in national elections |
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How many times has electoral vote winner not been popular vote winner? |
4 times |
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How much to run for house of representatives |
1 million |
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Negative ads focus on |
Policy differences. Positive ads focus on personal attributes. |
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People who are hurting economically tend to vote for |
The party not in power |
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Nomination process |
The process in which political parties take to nominate a candidate for president |
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General election |
Voters vote for electors in the general election who vote for the president |
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2 phases of the presidential election |
The nomination phase and the general election |
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Representative process |
Both the nomination process and the general election are a representative process |
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National convention delegates |
Come together from each state primary to have a roll call vote which awards the winner of the candidacy |
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Presidential electors |
Are apart of the electoral college who elect the president |
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Dark horse candidates |
Otherwise known as long shots will announce there candidacy earlier than their competition like ted Cruz in 2015 |
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Front runners |
Wait around 12 th 16 months to announce candidacy |
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Presidential prefernce primaries |
Each state holds a primary and is allotted a certain amount of delegates based on population, voters turn out to local polling places and cast a ballot for their preferred presidential candidate, then they are awarded pledged delegates in the portion to the percentage of the primary vote they received, at the national convention delegates who are pledged in each state meet and then declare a winner of the candidacy by a roll call vote |
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Iowa caucus/new Hampshire primaries |
early state delegate selection processes which can be a precursor to upcoming performance because of the media attention and campaign contributions that’s given to the candidates who place well. Voters in this state generally have an enhanced say in the process of nominating parties candidates |
