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Asking people's opinion to determine how people across the country (or state) are feeling about a certain issue

What is opinion polling?

100

Includes groups like women, African Americans, those under the age of 35, and people who live in the Northeastern United States.

What are groups that tend to vote for the Democratic Party?

100
Candidates use these to understand public preferences
What are polls?
100
Political ideology that promotes a stronger central government and a wide scope for the central government.
What is the liberal ideology
100

Policy that deals with taxing and spending; controlled by Congress and the President.

What is fiscal policy?

200
The process of reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every 10 years on the basis of the census results.
What is reapportionment?
200

Women voting more liberally and men voting more conservatively.

What is the gender gap?

200
People support a candidate because they see others are supporting them.
What is the bandwagon effect?
200

The beliefs and ideals of an entire generation. Ex. Millenials tend to be more liberal than the generations that came before them.

What are generational effects?

200

Policy that deals with interest rates and money supply; controlled by the Federal Reserve.

What is monetary policy?

300
The process through which individuals in society acquire political attitudes, views, and knowledge, based on inputs from family, schools, the media and others
What is political socialization?
300

Includes white men, those over the age of 65, and those who make more than $75,000 per year.

What are groups that tend to vote for the Republican Party?

300
Phenomena seen in most Presidential terms in which the President ends with a lower approval rating than when they started.
What are falling approval ratings.
300

Major historical events that impact multiple generations.

What are period effects?

300

The idea that during a recession, the government should refrain from taxing businesses, making it so they can hire more workers and improve wages, in order to improve the economy.

What is supply-side (or trickle down) economics

400
Relatively small proportion of people who are chosen in a survey so as to be representative of the whole group being studied.
What is a sample?
400

Situation in which the non-Hispanic whites will represent a minority of the U.S. population and minority groups will represent a majority.

What is the Minority-majority?

400

The most important factor in political socialization.

What is the family?

400

Party in government that believes the scope of American Government has become too wide range; the government has become too large.

What is the Republican party?

400

The idea that during a recession, the government should work to improve the situation for those at the bottom, through wrok programs, tax breaks, and other forms of social welfare, in order to improve the economy.

What is Keynesian Economics?

500
A coherent set of values and beliefs about public policy.
What is political ideology.
500

People tend to get more _____ as they get older.

What is Conservative?

500
Term used to describe the falling approval of all three branches of government.
What is Declining Trust in Government.
500

The term for the idea that where you are in your life will help determine some of your political ideology.

What are lifecycle effects?

500

The economic theory that most Republicans hold to.

What is supply-side economics?