Public Opinion & Media
When people feel dislike, suspicion, or even aggression toward people they see as not part of “their group”
What is out-group hostility?
The key heuristic voters use when voting in the U.S.
What is party identification?
Governmental social insurance, welfare, health, and education programs aimed at protecting against risk and insecurity, reducing poverty, and/or expanding opportunity
What is social policy?
The media doesn’t tell people what to think, but it influences what people think about
What is agenda setting?
In this voting system, if no candidate wins a majority, the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is eliminated and their votes are redistributed until someone has a majority
What is ranked choice voting?
This issue is largely credited with the shift of Southern Democrats to the Republican Party between 1930 and 1990
What is civil rights? (or politics of race)
The “preponderance” of online news and political content consumed
What is ideologically moderate content?
The House of Representatives follows this electoral system to seat its members
What is a single-member district? (or first-past-the-post, winner-take-all)
Model stipulating that political parties exist to help office seekers obtain office and coordinate policymaking once holding office
What is the rational-efficient model of political parties?
Group of news consumers who tend to already hold politically extreme views
Who are people who self-select into partisan news?
Non-voters tend to be substantially less conservative on this issue than those who vote regularly
What is economic redistribution?
Instead of relying on networks within the Washington policymaking community, interest group leaders might use this strategy of mobilizing citizens as a way of putting pressure on government officials
What is "outside lobbying"?
The more recently a consideration has been called to mind, the easier it is to retrieve that consideration from memory
What is the accessibility axiom?
Jackie Kennedy voiced the first televised advertisement of this kind; by the early 2000s, 26 national-race candidates deployed these types of ads
What are Spanish-language ads?
Contracting out government responsibilities to the private sector on the assumption that it can deliver goods/services more efficiently
What is the privatization principle?