Political Parties/Ideologies
This political party states that there should be less government regulation on the economy and that there is too much illegal immigration.
What is the Republican Party?
This is the practice of gathering information by asking voters who they voted for as they are on their way out of their polling places.
What is an exit poll?
People who live in large cities tend to vote _______________ and people who live in rural areas tend to vote ____________________.
What is Democratic and Republican?
This term generally reflects an alignment with the Republican Party, a desire for smaller government, and a focus on traditional values and personal freedoms.
What is conservative?
This case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and ruled that schools could no longer be racially segregated.
What is Brown v. Board of Ed?
A member of this political party tends to think that there should be more regulation on businesses and that minority rights should be protected.
What is the Democratic Party?
This is data gathered by contacting people over time to see how opinions change and how a candidate is faring with voters.
What is a tracking poll?
This is the process of developing political beliefs and ideology.
What is political socialization?
This term generally reflects an alignment with the Democratic Party, a belief that the government should be more active, and valuing equity and social progress.
What is liberal?
This case ruled that Amish parents had a right to pull their children out of school after the 8th grade because of the free exercise clause of the 1st Amendment.
What is Yoder v. Wisconsin?
Conservatives think the U.S. federal government is too _______?
Large/big
This is a small gathering of people who have a longer conversation that yields more qualitative data than a typical poll.
What is a focus group?
These shifts in priorities and values tend to reflect different stages of life like job hunting, parenthood, and aging.
What are life cycle effects?
This term is sometimes used interchangeably with "liberal" but can also be used to describe an ideology to the left of that, with more of a focus on actively correcting past inequality.
What is progressive?
This case ruled that a man urging people not to fight in WWI constituted a "clear and present danger" (like yelling fire in a crowded theatre) and therefore was not protected speech.
What is Schenck v. The US?
Liberals tend to believe that the government should do more to help _____ income citizens?
What is low?
This is data gathered at the beginning of a campaign in order to have something to compare later data to.
What is a benchmark poll?
These shifts in political values tend to happen within one cohort due to the way events affected them specifically.
What are generational effects?
This term describes an ideology that places individual rights and freedoms above all else, and advocates for the smallest possible government.
What is libertarian?
This case ruled that public school students had some protections on speech and expression at school, as long as their speech did not fundamentally disrupt the workings of the school.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
People who have a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of the common 'people' and often position this group in opposition to a perceived 'elite' are know as this...
What is a populist?
This term, in polling, means the entire group a poll is trying to represent.
What is the population?
These shifts in political values tend to affect most people based on significant shared experiences.
What are period effects?
A shift of support to the candidate leading in the polls and believed to be endorsed by many people is known as....
What is the bandwagon effect?
This case found that prayer in public schools violated the establishment clause of the 1st Amendment.
What is Engel v. Vitale?