AP American Government
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Political Culture | A coherent way of thinking about how politics and government ought to be carried out |
| Civic Duty | A belief that one has an obligation to participate in civic and political affairs |
| Civic Competence | A belief that one can affect government policies |
| Class Consciousness | A belief that you are a member of an economic group whose interests are opposed to people in other such groups |
| Orthodox | A belief that morality and religion ought to be of decisive importance |
| Progressive | A belief that personal freedom and solving social problems are more important than religion |
| Political Efficacy | A belief that you can take part in politics (internal efficacy) or that the government will respond to the citizenry (external efficacy) |
| Internal Efficacy | The ability to understand and take part in politics |
| External Efficacy | The willingness of the state to respond to the citizenry |
| Public Opinion | How people think or feel about particular things |
| Poll | A survey of public opinion |
| Random Sample | Method of selecting from a population in which each person has an equal probability of being selected |
| Sampling Error | The difference between the results of random samples taken at the same time |
| Exit Polls | Polls based on interviews conducted on Election Day with randomly selected voters |
| Political Socialization | Process by which background traits influence one's political views |
| Elite | People who have a disproportionate amount of some valued resource |
| Gender Gap | Difference in political views between men and women |
| Political Ideology | A more or less consistent set of beliefs about what policies government ought to pursue |
| Political Elites | Persons with a disproportionate share of political power |
| Norm | A standard of right or proper conduct |
| Voting-age Population | Citizens who are eligible to vote after reaching the minimum are requirement |
| Registered Voters | People who are registered to vote |
| Literacy Test | A requirement that citizens pass a literacy test in order to register to vote |
| Poll Tax | A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote |
| Grandfather Clause | A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867 |
| White Primary | The practice of keeping blacks from voting in the southern states' primaries through arbitrary use of registration requirements and intimidation |
| Australian Ballot | A government-printed ballot of uniform dimensions to be cast in secret that many states adopted around 1890 to reduce voting fraud associated with party-printed ballots cast in public |
| Activists | People who tend to participate in all forms of politics |
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