Vocabulary
A charge of _______ refers to false statements that defame someone in print.
What is libel?
This is the practice of gathering information by asking voters who they voted for as they are on their way out of their polling places.
What is an exit poll?
The years between 18-24 when people tend to develop their core political beliefs.
What is the formative age?
This term generally reflects an alignment with the Republican Party, a desire for smaller government, and a focus on traditional values and personal freedoms.
What is conservative?
This case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and ruled that schools could no longer be racially segregated.
What is Brown v. Board of Ed?
This term is a belief in the fundamental worth and importance of the individual person.
What is individualism?
This is data gathered by contacting people over time to see how opinions change.
What is a tracking poll?
This is the process of developing political beliefs and ideology.
What is political socialization?
This term generally reflects an alignment with the Democratic Party, a belief that the government should be more active, and valuing equity and social progress.
What is liberal?
This case ruled that Amish parents had a right to pull their children out of school after the 8th grade because of the free exercise clause of the 1st Amendment.
What is Yoder v. Wisconsin?
The idea that every American is free to pursue life, liberty, and property.
What is equal opportunity?
This is a small gathering of people who have a longer conversation that yields more qualitative data than a typical poll.
What is a focus group?
These shifts in priorities and values tend to reflect different stages of life like job hunting, parenthood, and aging.
What are life cycle effects?
This term is sometimes used interchangeably with "liberal" but can also be used to describe an ideology to the left of that, with more of a focus on actively correcting past inequality.
What is progressive?
This case ruled that a man urging people not to fight in WWI constituted a "clear and present danger" (like yelling fire in a crowded theatre) and therefore was not protected speech.
What is Schenck v. The US?
This is the relationship between government and the economy in which the government has a hands off (or laissez-faire) approach.
What is free enterprise?
This is data gathered at the beginning of a campaign in order to have something to compare later data to.
What is a benchmark poll?
The differences in political ideology based on how old people are.
What are generational effects?
This term describes an ideology that places individual rights and freedoms above all else, and advocates for the smallest possible government.
What is libertarian?
This case ruled that public school students had some protections on speech and expression at school, as long as their speech did not fundamentally disrupt the workings of the school.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
This term describes the process of an ever-expanding and increasingly interactive world.
What is globalization?
This term, in polling, means a deceptive way to poll people, offers positive points about the candidate or negative points about the opponent
What is push polling?
This group is comprised of people who were born between 1981 - 1996.
Who are millennials?
This economist and philosopher wrote The Wealth of Nations that stated that the government should intervene in the natural flow of human economic interactions only to protect people.
Who is Adam Smith?
This case found that prayer in public schools violated the establishment clause of the 1st Amendment.
What is Engel v. Vitale?