Key Terms
Theories
Politicians and Polling
Political Ideology
Political Participation
100
The science of population changes
What is demography?
100
Term used to describe the make up of the U.S. with its mixed cultures, ideas, and peoples.
What is the American Melting Pot?
100
Candidates use these to understand public preferences
What are polls?
100

Political ideology that promotes a stronger central government and a wide scope for the central government.

What is the liberal ideology?

100
Form of political participation designed to achieve policy change through dramatic or unconventional tactics that may result in law breaking.
What are protests?
200
The process of reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every 10 years on the basis of the census results.
What is reapportionment?
200

Women voting more liberally and men voting more conservatively.

What is the gender gap?

200
People support a candidate because they see others are supporting them.
What is the bandwagon effect?
200

This demographic of people tend to identify themselves more with the liberal ideology over the conservative ideology.

What are younger people?

200

A representative is put on the ballot to be removed from office with a direct vote by citizens

What is a recall?

300
The process through which individuals in society acquire political attitudes, views, and knowledge, based on inputs from family, schools, the media and others
What is political socialization?
300

Hate Congress, but love your congressperson.

What is the idea that people prefer their own congressperson because they can see the direct benefits of their work, but have distrust in government as a whole?

300

Phenomena seen in most Presidential terms in which the President ends with a lower approval rating than when they started.

What are falling approval ratings?

300

This group of people are more likely to support spending on social services, oppose higher levels of military spending, and support the liberal ideology.

Who are women?

300

proposal by the citizens that is put on the ballot during an election for direct citizen vote for approval or denial

What is an initiative?

400
Relatively small proportion of people who are chosen in a survey so as to be representative of the whole group being studied.
What is a sample?
400
Situation in which the non-Hispanic whites will represent a minority of the U.S. population and minority groups will represent a majority.
What is the Minority-majority?
400
A term used to describe a spike upwards in a President's approval rating due to a horrific national event.
What is a rally-around-the-flag effect?
400

Party in government that believes the scope of American Government has become too wide range.

What is Republican party?

400
a proposal by the citizens to repeal a law that is in existence and is voted on directly b the citizens on the ballot
What is a referendum?
500
A coherent set of values and beliefs about public policy.
What is political ideology.
500

A large amount of the population is reaching the age to access Social Security, and fertility rate per women is dropping, the ratio of worker to retiree is dropping.

What is the "Graying of America" or "Aging America"?

500

Term used to describe the falling approval of all three branches of government.

What is declining trust in government?

500

This group of people tend to be more conservative in their views.

Who are older Americans?

500

This racial group makes up the largest percentage of voting citizens.

What is the caucasian/white race? 

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