GOVT - Chapter 5
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Core Beliefs (Political) | Individuals' views about the fundamental nature of human beings, society, the economy, and the role of government; taken together, they compromise the political culture. |
| Political Attitudes | Individuals' views and preferences about public policies, political parties, candidates, government institutions, and public officials. |
| Public Opinion | Political attitudes and core beliefs expressed by ordinary citizens as revealed by surveys. |
| Sample Survey | An interview study asking questions of a set of people who are chosen as representative of the whole population. |
| Random Sampling | The selection of survey respondents by chance, with equal probability of being selected, to ensure their representatives of the whole population. |
| Political Socialization | The process by which individuals come to have certain core beliefs and political attitudes. |
| Agents of Socialization | Those institutions and individuals that shape the core beliefs and attitudes of people. |
| Political Ideology | A system of interrelated and coherently organized political beliefs and attitudes. |
| Collective Public Opinion | The political attitudes of the public as a whole, expressed as averages, percentages, or other summaries of many individuals' opinions. |
| Rational Public | The notion that collective public opinion is rational in the sense that it is generally stable and consistent and that when it changes it does so as an understandable response to events, to changing circumstances, and to new information. |
| Presidential Approval Rating | A president's standing with the public, indicated by the percentage of Americans who tell survey interviews that they approve a president's "Handling of his job." |
| Economic Conservatives | People who favor private enterprise and oppose government regulation of business. |
| Economic Liberals | People who favor government regulation of business and government spending for social programs. |
| Social (lifestyle) Liberals | People who favor civil liberties, abortion rights, and alternative lifestyles. |
| Social (lifestyle) Conservatives | People who favor traditional social values; they tend to support strong law-and-order measures and oppose abortion and gay rights. |
| Policy Preferences | Citizens' ideas about what policies they want government to pursue. |
| Isolationism | The policy of avoiding involvement in foreign affairs. |
| Unilateralist | The stance toward foreign policy that suggests that the United States should "go it alone," pursuing its national interests without seeking the cooperation of other nations or multilateral institutions. |
| Multilateralist | The stance toward foreign policy that suggests that the United States should seek the cooperation of other nations and multilateral institutions in pursuing its goals. |
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