Frank Niles (Public Opinion, Voting and Participation)Test #2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Public Opinion | The combined personal opinion of adults towards issues of relevance to government. |
| Ideology | Interrelated beliefs with abstract principles that make political philosophies coherent. |
| Attitude Consistency | The degree to which a person's political opinions all fall at about the same point on the liberalconservative scale. |
| Liberal | The government should play an expansive role in society with the goal of protecting the weak citizens and ensuring political and social equality for all citizens. |
| Conservative | Governmen t should play a minimal role in society with the goal of ensureing sitizens economic freedom |
| Factors that influence whether a person receives a message | cognitive ability, Pre-dispositions, emotional importance |
| Generational Effect | A group of individuals that experience the same event and it leaves a permanent mark on them |
| Party identification | Psychological feeling of belonging to a particular political party which influences voting behavior |
| Stages of political learning | Early Childhood - Develop feelings, Late childhood - less personal view of politics, adolescence - sense of duty and pride |
| stages of college learning | Enlightenment - as students learn they pick up values, Awareness - Students become more aware, Self Selection - Students make choice before participating in something, Indoctrination - Politics is about who is screwing who. |
| Social Reference Theory | People form opinions to gain membership in a group. Humans define themselves with outside criteria |
| Dissonance Theory | Citizens form opinions in a manner that reduces psychological conflict between values and opinions |
| Authoritarian Personality | People who cower under authority but crush those below them fearful of an uncertain world. |
| Retrospective Issue Voting | pocketbook - economic, sociotropic - voting based on the communitys economic interest rather than personal interest |
| Hard Issues | Complicated issue that requires voters to have information about the policy and to spend time considering their choices |
| Easy Issues | Simple issues that allow voters to make quick, emotional decisions without much information |
| Puzzle of participation | Decline in turnout depsite decline in costs associated with voting |
| Plurality | Political opinion is spread widely and on different issues different groups of people exercise power |
| Issue Publics | People who follow a particular issue closely, are well informed, and have strong opinions about it. |
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