What is a patterned and sustained way of thinking about economic and political life?
100
Largest influence on the political beliefs of high school students
What is their parents?
100
Polls conducted on election at polling locations.
What are exit polls?
100
The most common form of political participation.
What is voting?
100
Two measures to prevent African Americans from voting.
What are poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clauses, or white only primaries?
200
Americans are proccupied with these.
What is their rights?
200
What is political ideology?
A consistent set of beliefs about what policies the government should pursue.
200
Random Sample
What is a method for choosing poll respondents in which each respondent has the same probability of being selected?
200
In recent years the gap between these two measures of voting has increased.
What is VAP and VEP?
200
This amendment gave those 18 to 21 the right to vote.
What is the 26th Amendment?
300
The United States and Japan differ greatly on this issue.
What is immigration?
300
A classic study found that the citizens of what country had the highest sense of civic duty
What is the United States of America?
300
Findings of the first public opinion polls.
What is that only a small group of Americans were informed, but most were not?
300
Motor Voter Law
What is a law that allows people to register to vote when they get their driver's license?
300
An example of unconventional political participation.
What is a protest or demonstration? (Occupy Wall Street)
400
Created America's growing distrust of government.
What is British colonial rule?
400
Major difference between liberals and conservatives as it relates to government
What is Liberals favor more government interaction, Conservatives favor less?
400
Elites
Who are people with a disproportionate amount of a valued resource?
400
This is the most common reason that people say they don't vote.
What is a scheduling conflict, or they are too busy?
400
Parochial participants
Who are people who stay away from state and national politics and elections but instead tries to solve their problems through local and community government?
500
The five elements of American political culture
What are liberty, equality, civic duty, democracy, individual responsibility?
500
According to polls, the group of Americans most likely to help.
Who are the elderly?
500
The average number of respondents for a typical public opinion poll.
What is 15 hundred?
500
This amendment gave African Americans the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
500
Requiring that voters have these to vote has created strong controversy, but has been upheld by the Supreme Court.