Ideology Concepts
Equal opportunity, the rule of law, and individualism are all examples of this.
What is American political culture?
Children are most likely to adopt the political party identification of them.
Who are their parents?
Popular public support of this economic safety net program from both political parties has resulted in most politicians considering it sacrosanct.
What is Social Security?
This political party would be more likely to a larger government with more public services.
Who are the Democrats?
The most comprehensive demographic study of Americans is this.
What is the Census?
Someone who believes the government should not be involved in the economy or social issues would best be described as this longstanding third party.
What is the Libertarian Party?
The process by which political values are passed from one generation to another is known as this.
What is political socialization?
In polling, giving respondents a range of choices from "Strongly Agree" to "Strongly Disagree" is know as this type of question.
What is Likert Scale?
Removing regulations on the marketplace is more likely to be supported by this major party.
Who are the Republicans?
A media organization randomly asking citizens who they voted for as they leave a polling location is known as this.
What is an exit poll?
Raising the minimum wage would most likely be supported by someone who identified ideologically as this.
What is liberal?
This generation (people born between the late 1990s and early 2010s) are most likely to support gun control laws and LGBTQ rights.
Who are Gen Z?
This is the level of confidence in the findings of a public opinion poll.
What is sampling error?
What are the wealthy and large corporations?
This governmental body's primary activity is setting interest rates.
What is the Federal Reserve?
On the political spectrum, the far left and far right have this in common.
What is that they are dictatorships?
The impact of these can be one cause of the political differences between generations?
What are world and/or cultural events?
This is the range of people needed to have a good chance at an effective random sample.
What is 1000-1500?
One factor influencing party politics is that the US population is getting closer to becoming this, where most Americans are members of minority groups.
What is minority majority?
The goal of all public policies is balancing public welfare with this.
What are civil liberties?
Neo-conservative social policy has been influenced by this group, also known as Evangelicals.
What is the "Religious Right"?
This generation (people born between 1928-1945) are the most conservative generation.
What is the Silent Generation?
He is considered the father of public opinion polling.
Who is George Gallup?
Republican critics of the Affordable Care Act oppose the law because they believe it violates this one major government concept.
What is Limited Government?
The second wave of immigration in the United States (late 19th and early 20th century) included many people from these regions of the world.
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?