Public Opinion
What is selection bias? What are selection effects?
Warned against "factions" in Federalist Paper #10.
Who is James Madison?
This policy change caused a temporary drop in voter turnout in the 1920's.
What is women's suffrage?
Because it's high, average life span in the United States is low.
What is the infant-mortality rate?
The part of the Constitution thought to establish a "right to protest."
What is the First Amendment?
Showed that Californians in the 1920's did not behave as badly as they threatened to pollsters.
What was the LaPiere Study?
Game-theory name for when captured criminals must decide whether to tell on each other.
What is the Prisoner's Dilemma?
Presidential candidate who was in danger of losing his party's nomination until he won the South Carolina primary.
Who is Joe Biden?
The name for a controversial policy intended to give families more flexibility for the education of their children.
What are school vouchers?
The U.S. federal budget hasn't done this since late in the Clinton Administration.
What is running a surplus (aka paying back some debt)?
Refers to when a poll question actively shapes how respondents perceive the issue asked about.
What is a framing effect?
Name for the people who claim no party affiliation but vote as predictably as some partisans.
Who are the independent leaners?
These citizens gained the right to vote nationwide 50 years before women.
What are African-American men?
These two programs alone constitute more than half of federal mandatory spending.
What are Social Security and Medicare?
Islamist group that infiltrated Nigerian protest to start an insurgency.
What is Boko Haram?
Poll respondents needn't make tradeoffs, so often their policy preferences will be this.
What is unrealistic (or inconsistent) public opinion?
Name for the theory that fights among rival interest groups will lead to good policy.
What is pluralism?
Charged by the Constitution with deciding how presidential electors get picked.
What are the state legislatures?
Replaced AFDC to become the income-support program usually called "welfare."
What is Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF)?
Consumes an increased share of the federal budget, drawing funds away from discretionary and mandatory spending.
What is interest on the federal debt?
Name for the ethnic group that many people disliked without having met them.
Who are the Wisians?
What is a (critical) realignment or realigning election?
Used in some political-science turnout research because the Voting-Age Population is misleading.
What is the Voting-Eligible Population (VEP)?
These automatic changes help some domestic programs keep up with inflation.
What are cost-of-living adjustments (COLA's)?
Term for protests like those conducted on college campuses intended to embarrass the elites running them.
What is an Institutional-Adjacent protest?