BULLSEYE VOCABULARYUNIT 2

Political Culture, Political Socialization, Particiapation

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The science of population changes?

Demography

Most valuable method of understanding demographic changes in America?

Census

The distribution of the population’s beliefs about politics and policy issues?

Public Opinion

A process where demographic changes in the United States population translates into political consequences?

reapportionment

The emergence of a non-Caucasian majority, as compared with a white, generally Anglo-Saxon majority is often referred to as?

Minority Majority

The percentage of whites living below the poverty level?

10 percent

The largest racial/ethnic minority group in the U.S.?

Hispanics

Congressional act that required as of 1987 that employers document citizenship or legal immigrant status of their employees or face criminal charges?

Simpson-Mazzoli

Reapportionment occurs after every census to reallocate seats in?

House of Representatives

The process through which an individual acquires his or her particular political orientations, including knowledge, feelings, and evaluations regarding the political world?

Political socialiation

Scientific public opinion polling was first begun in 1932 by?

George Gallup

Because it is expensive to ask every American his or her opinion, polls rely on?

Sample

In public opinion polls, a sample how small can represent the “universe” of Americans?

1,500

What is the key to the accuracy of a public opinion poll?

Random sampling

This term refers to how close a sample estimate is to the real population?

Sampling Error

What principle does random sampling in public opinion polling operate?

Everyone should have a equal probability of being selected

1936 Literary Digest poll underestimated the vote for President Roosevelt because of what error?

Sample was drawn from phone books and motor vehicle

records

What percentage of public opinion polls have a sampling error?

100 Percent

Randomly selecting voting places around the country and asking every tenth person how they voted is?

An Exit Poll

What happened after the Presidential election of 1964 and Watergate?

Public trust in government

dropped significantly

A coherent set of values and beliefs about public policy?

Political ideology

When asked about their ideology most people say they are?

moderate

Favors free-market solutions, low taxes, right to life, increased military spending, family values?

Conservative

Which party believes the government has become too large and wide ranging?

Republican

The regular pattern by which women are more likely to support Democratic candidates than are men is?

Gender Gap

Most liberal religious group in America?

The Jews

belief that in order to support democratic government a citizen should always vote is a belief in the nation of?

Civic duty

Suffrage means?

Right to Vote

What has happened as the right to vote has been extended?

Fewer eligible voters are voting

The most frequent reason voters give for not voting on election day?

Could not take time off of work

or school

If people have a high sense of political efficacy, are able to see policy differences that affect their interests, and have a high sense of civic duty are?

More likely to vote

The belief that ordinary people can influence the government is known as?

Political Efficacy

If you believe that “public officials don’t care much about what people like me think,” then you are expressing feelings of?

Low political efficacy

If you believe citizens should vote in order to support democratic government then you believe in?

Civic duty

What did states adopt in order to prevent corruption associated with stuffing the ballot box?

Voter registration

What major reason was cited from America’s level of voter turnout compared to other industrialized countries?

Registration is more cumbersome in the

United States

Compared to other countries the turnout of voters in the U.S. is?

Much Lower

This required states to register individuals to vote when they apply for, or renew, their driver’s license?

Motor Voter Act of 1993

What was the impact of the Motor Voter Act of 1993?

Higher registration and lower turnout

from 1996-2000

What group of people have the lowest voter turnout rate?

Young People

People with higher than average education?

Vote more than people with lower educational levels

How much of the population votes?

Just over one-half

Who votes more, African Americans or whites?

Whites

President Bush stated “When you win there is a feeling that the people have spoken and embraced your point of view, and that’s what I intend to tell Congress,” he was expressing?

Mandate Theory of Elections

When people base their choices in an election on their own issue preferences?

Policy voting

Why was the Electoral College originally established?

To give the nation’s elite the power to choose

the President and Vice President rather than

the people directly

When President Hoover and the Republicans were crushed in the election of 1932, voters were responding to the severity of the Great Depression by?

Retrospective voting