Core
Values
Values
This core value is favored by Conservatives and focuses on less government intervention in the economy.
This has proven to be the most powerful agent of political socialization.
This type of poll is done at the beginning of an election cycle in order to establish a baseline.
What is a benchmark poll?
This is the economic condition that calls for expansionary economic policy.
What is a recession?
This is how taxes would be modified if the government was doing contractionary fiscal policy.
What are increased?
This ideological group (and political party) favors individualism and limited government above all other core values.
Who are Libertarians?
An example of this type of effect on ideology would be a person changing their ideology to reflect that they are about to retire from their career.
This refers to the statistical measure of variation that a poll's results may reflect.
What is a margin of error?
This type of economic policy relies on the manipulation of interest rates and the money supply.
What is monetary policy?
This generation is the least politically active.
Who are Millenials?
This core value would be referenced when a political official is convicted of a crime and is given no special treatment because of their status.
What is rule of law?
This generation is more conservative than Gen X but less religious than the Silent Generation.
Who are Baby Boomers?
This type of sampling helps to ensure that the results of the polling will generalize well to the entire population that is being studied.
What is representative or random sampling?
This is the central bank of the United States.
What is the Federal Reserve or Fed?
"Government should be limited, efficient, and accountable, with power returned to states, communities, and individuals...we believe education decisions should be made by parents and local communities, not federal bureaucrats” This excerpt is from this political party's platform in 2024.
Who are Republicans?
"We believe the economy should grow from the bottom up and middle out, not the top down, so that everyone benefits.” This excerpt is from the 2024 Platform of this political party.
Who are Democrats?
The idea that voters shaped by the Great Depression consistently favor government intervention points to this type of effect on ideology.
What is generational effect?
This is the definition of a "push question."
What is a question within a poll that "pushes" the respondent to answer a certain way?
Keynesian Theory is favored by this political party.
Who are Democrats?
This is the core value that most closely relates to the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
What is equality of opportunity?
Historically, this core value has been ranked the highest, in terms of importance, by American voters.
What is individualism?
This demographic factor is the most accurate predictor of whether or not someone will vote.
What is education level?
FDR was predicted by Literary Digest to lose to Alf Landon during this election year.
What is 1936?
This economic philosophy is favored by conservatives and focuses on businesses.
What is supply side economics?
This law, passed by Congress in 2001, reflected a huge ideological shift among Americans towards order and national security. The law gave the Federal government more freedom in surveillance and in the questioning of terrorism suspects.
What is the Patriot Act?