4.1
Conservative: Create your own opportunity/“God helps those who help themselves”
Liberal: Some need a hand up to get started because society is not inherently equal
What is Equality of Opportunity?
A poll of voters immediately after they have exited the polling stations.
What are Election polls?
Conservative: Laissez Faire approach, let business regulate itself
Liberal: Some government regulation necessary to protect workers and consumers
What is Free Enterprise?
Issues like student debt, economic opportunity, mental health, and climate policy are directly responsible for how their lives pan out.
Who are GenZers?
Initial poll conducted at the beginning of a campaign
What is Opinion Polls?
Asserts that the extreme leftism and extreme rightism are closer to one another than either is to the political center
What is the horseshoe theory?
Conservative: Strict interpretation of the Constitution
Liberal: Liberal interpretation of the Constitution, it is a living document that must change with the times
What is Rule of Law?
Families, education, peers, media, social environments, geography
What are socialization influences?
They tend to focus on policies related to student debt, affordable housing, healthcare access, and economic opportunity. This is because they are trying to stabilize themselves for the future at this time in their lives.
Who are Millennials?
A type of poll designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or within confidence intervals
What are Bench-mark Polls?
Assists in influencing citizen action (driven to vote, contributing to campaigns, writing letters to senators and other activism), determine campaign strategies, policy shifts, and fight (people might fight over accept elections) (4.5-4.6)
What is public polling?
The expansion of political interrelations across the globe, diminishing the role of national borders (ex. UN, EU, NATO, WTO)
What is Political Globalization?
The process in which people develop their political values, beliefs, attitudes and ideology. It is a process that is continuous, which means it happens throughout one’s life.
What is Political Socialization?
They tend to prioritize policies related to job security, the cost of living, higher education because they are also planning for their children’s futures, and retirement planning.
Who are GenXer?
A type of poll that measures changes in public opinion over time by repeatedly asking the same questions to a specific group of people
What are Tracking Polls?
Democratic, Communist, Labor Unions, “All for one and one for all," nurturing, urban areas, Fairness, a level playing field for everyone, Freedom, Rights for all
What is the Left?
They tend to prioritize policies and candidates that focus on retirement security, healthcare costs, and taxes because these are the issues that directly affect them in their current stage of life
Who are Boomers?
Sampling Methods, Type & Format of Questions, Accurate Reporting
What are Polling Methodologies?
Republican, Conservative, Nationalist, “Survival of the fittest," “Everyone for themselves," Rural environment, Strong religious beliefs, Individualistic, Self-reliant, Strong government
What is the Right?