The Media
What do we call the media system that provides little options for daily news?
What is a low-choice media system?
List at least two methods of primary socialization.
What is family, school, religion, friends?
What is it called when a voter selects every candidate that a political party has on the ballot?
What is a stright-ticket?
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
What is the nineteenth amendment?
A concept where individuals benefit from a public good or service without contributing to its cost.
What is the free-rider problem?
Which media function describes the role of media in exposing incompetent, hypocritical, or corrupt officials?
What is the watch-dog function?
What is it called when a poll is measuring how important an issue is when compared to other issues?
What is salience?
What do you call a system where the candidate with the most votes wins the election?
What is a plurality election?
What is it called when there is a general lack of interest in election participation?
What is apathy?
What do we call the paid professionals who advocate for specific organizations or interest groups to influence government decisions?
What is a lobbyist?
Which media function describes the role of media in serving as an advocate for particular viewpoints?
What is the partisan media function?
What do we call groups that include many individuals who belong to other social groups?
What is a crosscutting group?
What were the first two major parties in the United States?
Who were the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists?
What is suffrage?
What is the right to vote?
Name at least two of the three types of economic interest groups.
What are business, labor, or farm groups?
What is the media phenomenon where people hear what they like to believe and where contrary voices are excluded or debunked?
What is an echo chamber?
If a representative is responsive to constituents but still uses their personal judgement when making decisions, what form of representation are they utilizing?
What is trustee representation?
What is the name of the political party that rose to oppose Andrew Jackson's Democrats?
What is the Whig Party?
Which amendment gave African-American men the right to vote?
What is the fifteenth amendment?
What is an example of a public good?
Libraries, parks, roads, etc.
What describes the media's ability to influence what issues are on people's minds and how they think about them?
What is agenda setting?
If a sample has a sample error of +/- 3 and it predicts a poll result of 52%, what is the HIGHEST that the actual percentage could be?
What is 55%?
After the Civil War, the __________ Party held the Presidency and Congress for most of the time; after the New Deal, the __________ Party held the Presidency and Congress for most of the time.
What is the Republican party and what is the Democratic party?
True or False: Older people are more likely to vote in elections when compared to younger people.
What is true?
What is the kind of lobbying that involves interest groups directly contacting policymakers to influence legislation or policy-making?
What is inside lobbying?