Ideology and Polling
Propaganda & Media Influence
(Political) Party Time!
"Oh behave!" (Voter Behavior & Group Politics)
Potpourri
400
"A cohesive set of beliefs that form a general philosophy about the government." The term described here is typically built from one's values, issue preferences, and the influences of one's political socialization.
What is a political ideology?
400
When American media began reporting about the human rights concerns in Gaza, it drew attention to this issue. This represents the media's ______ _____ power to influence Americans.
What is agenda-setting?
400
In America's United States House and Senate races this fall, only one candidate from each legislative district in the House and Senate can win. This fits most with electoral district model?
What is the single-member district, or winner-take-all, model?
400
When voters leave one dominant party and endorse the other in a two-party system. This phenomenon has occurred five times in America's history, most recently from 1968-1972.
What is a political or electoral realignment?
400
Typically the least democratic method of nomination for political parties, this is a closed nomination meeting of party members and activists. Most states have abandoned this method in recent years.
What is the caucus?
800
Those possessing this political ideology would typically be more supportive of spending into government social programs, while being less supportive of tax cuts.
What is/are liberal(s)?
800
What is plain folk?
800
The dominant party in America's two-party system during the Civil War and Reconstruction, until the New Deal Era.
What is the Republican Party?
800
These so-called "outside" groups are permitted to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money for causes, so long as they do not specifically endorse a candidate. These groups derive their nickname from a shadier perk, in that these groups are not required to disclose their donors.
What are 501c(4) Committees or "Dark Money" Groups?
800
Virginia has 11 members in the United States House of Representatives. How many electoral college votes does Virginia have for presidential elections?
What is/are 13?
1200
That men and women are far apart on areas of gun policy and political party preferences are examples of a _____ _____ in American politics.
What is "Gender Gap?"
1200
Prior to 1985, had a major broadcast network aired a news special about the issue of abortion, it would have been required to present information from different sides of the issue. This was enforceable under the _____ ______.
What was the Fairness Doctrine?
1200
An individual voter's psychological ties to one political party or another. Often the largest predictive indicator of how someone will vote, particularly when voters have less information on an election.
What is party identification?
1200
When the national government moves to ____ suffrage, many states have moved to ____ turnout.
What are "expand" and "limit?"
1200
More problematic for large interest groups, this phenomenon occurs when fewer members of a group contribute to the procuring of a collective good shared by all of its members.
What is the free-rider phenomenon?
1600
Americans often overstate (read: inflate) their church attendance or participation in elections to pollsters. These are examples of the _________ effect in polling.
What is "social desirability?"
1600
What is transfer?
1600
Political Parties in America serve five key functions. List three of them.
What are:
Recruiting Candidates, Organizing Candidate Nomination, Getting Out the Vote (GOTV), Organizing Power in Government, and Recruiting Voters.
1600
A loose, informal relationship of public officials, interest groups, and activists who are all concerned with the same policies is called
What is an issue network?
1600
An interest group offering paying members discounts on flights, gym memberships, or insurance would be examples of this kind of selective benefit.
What is a material benefit?
2000
In 2018, Mr. McKeag received a phone call asking which candidate he planned to support between Abigail Spanberger and Dave Brat. Before being asked, he was informed that Spanberger had taught at "terror high," where a student had radicalized to ISIS, and that Spanberger's working at the school contributed to the student's outcome. This call represents an example of a _______ ______.
What is a push poll?
2000
The fact that most journalists referred to the Obama administration’s health care initiative as “reform” while those critical of the policy referred to it as “health care rationing” are both examples of media's ______ of a news event.
What is framing?
2000
The main goal of a political party.
What is "to control the government (power)?"
2000
As a result of three landmark Supreme Court decisions beginning in 2010, the influence of corporations and the wealthy have drastically increased through spending in campaigns. Most notably, Elon Musk spent nearly $300 million in the 2024 election.
Name two of these three Supreme Court decisions since 2010.
What are:
Citizens United v. FEC (2010), SpeechNow v. FEC (2010), and McCutcheon et al v. FEC (2014)
2000
It may take two photographs to capture the Framers' decision to split the national legislature into two chambers--the US House and US Senate. This illustrates what term of government, key to limiting a democracy in order to protect the rights of those in the minority of an issue.
What is bicameral(ism)?