Public Opinion/Polling
A poll is taken on election day as people are walking into or out of voting to get more information on voting behavior.
What is an entrance/exit poll?
"Those who make more need to pay more in taxes"
What is a liberal standpoint on taxation?
The nation's central bank
What is the Federal Reserve?
No person is above the law.
What is Rule of law?
The process of how a person obtains their political idealogy.
What is Political socialization?
A poll that shows changes in opinions over time.
What is a tracking poll?
"Social order should be favored."
What is a conservative standpoint on liberty and order?
Government spending/tax policies that are to be controlled by the president and Congress.
What is the Fiscal Policy?
Eveyone has the same chance to succeed, but not everyone is guarunteed to succeed.
Things that happen during a person's early adult/teenage life that effect their political beleifs.
A +3%/-3% is accounted for in case of miscalculations.
What is a sampling error?
"There should be no regulations beyond property rights"
What is a libertarian standpoint on the regulation of the marketplace?
The government should stimulate the economy by cutting taxes during a recession to encourage taxpayers to spend more and help businesses make more.
What is Supply-side economics?
Each person has freedom to do whatever they want to do.
What is Individualism?
There are different voting paterns and beleifs based on different age groups in society.
What is generational effects?
Can not be biased toward an opinion, or try and make people vote for a certain answer.
What is wording of question?
"Cut money going towards entitlement programs to promote economic equality"
What is a conservative standpoint on government spending?
Controlled by the Federal Reserve to stablize economy. They do this by controlling money supply and interest rates.
What is the Monetary Policy?
Constitution keeps the power of government contained.
What is Limited government?
People focus on different political issues at different times of their lives.
What is lifestyle effects?
When a population is split up into sorted groups and weighed based on demographics.
What is a stratified sample?
"Protect the rights of the accused"
What is a liberal standpoint on military, crime and punishment?
Government should increase their spending during high rates of unemployment and low GDP to stimulate the economy and encourage economic activity.
What is Keynesian economics?
Freedom of people buying and selling whatever they please with little regulation from the government.
What is Free enterprise?
Globalization
What happens when US political culture is influced by other countries or influcenes other countries?