Political Culture
The widespread and long held beliefs about politics and economics
What is political culture
This term describes how the general public feel about a topic
What is public opinion?
This type of citizen only participates in politics through voting
What is a voting specialist?
People with this level of education typically vote more than others
What is a college level of education?
This is the ideas that current events when an individual is in their late teens to mid twenties shapes their political identity for most of their life
What is the impressionable years hypothesis?
Pollsters use this method to randomly select people to poll
What is random sampling?
This political participant only participates in politics through voting
What is a voting specialist?
The more someone has of this, the more likely they typically are to vote
What is income?
The belief that the government will respond to the people's wishes
What is external efficacy
Typically expressed as a percentage point, this term describes the difference in results between two polls taken at the same time
What is sampling error?
This type of political participant is regularly involved in campaigning for politicians
What is a campaigner?
These two reason are typically why older people vote more than younger people
What is older citizens typically have more time and are more affected by policy (Social Security, medicare)
This belief system believes that morality and religion should be a primary consideration when writing policy
What is orthodoxy?
This method of polling involves calling random phone numbers to achieve give everyone an equal chance of being interviewed
What is random digit dialing?
This type of political participant is mostly concerned with local issues and participates in local politics, however, they also vote
What is a communalist?
This religious group typically has conservative economic opinions and liberal social opinions
What are Catholics?
This term describes a system were the law is applied consistently and is utilized to go after political opponents and advance an individual's personal political agenda
What is rule by law?
These three things must be considered in order to have an accurate poll
What is question order, framing, and question wording?
This type of political participant only contacts local politicians about personal problems
What are parochial participants?
People from this spanish speaking country are typically conservative
What is Cuba?