Socialized Politics
You can recover, but your generation's political beliefs may have been changed for life by this disease.
What is COVID 19?
Ideas people accept as being true.
What are beliefs?
This is the increasing hatred citizens feel toward members of the opposing party or ideology.
What is affective polarization?
When people search for information that is consistent with their prior beliefs.
What is selective exposure (echo chambers)?
They said that PID is mostly caused by ideological beliefs.
Who are Abramowitz & Saunders?
The life phase when people are most influenced in their political beliefs.
What are the "impressionable years" (adolescence/young adult)?
Feelings attached to ideas, candidates, or political groups.
What are attitudes?
Citizens today are less likely to be willing to do this with members of the opposing party.
What is marry?
These wacky beliefs often go viral on social media.
What are conspiracy theories?
The term we use to describe people who pay close attention to issue positions and candidate or party performance in order to maximize their vote.
What is rational?
Family, peers, school, religion.
What are agents of socialization?
Formal systems of political thought.
What are ideologies?
This is what psychologists call the feelings we have about things.
What is affect?
These are used strategically in political communication to present the same story in different ways.
What are frames?
The only group that has not shifted to the right over the past 50+ years.
Who are African-Americans?
In 1960, they said citizens may know little about parties' issue positions, but they will still vote according to Party ID.
Who were Campbell et al. (Michigan School)?
A type of beliefs that connect to ideologies.
What are principles?
These are the connections we feel toward the groups that we belong to.
What are identities?
In the 2000 presidential election, this word was inserted subliminally in a campaign ad.
What is RATS?
This is what political scientists call a major shift in the electorate across the parties.
What is a realignment?
Herbert Hyman said "a man is born into" this.
What is their political party?
An important attitude that influences the vote among the two major parties.
What is Party ID?
In 2018, LM found that affective polarization is mostly driven by this rather than issues.
What is identity-based ideology?
Tolerance toward this group was manipulated in a 1997 experiment by Nelson, Clawson, and Oxley.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This survey to study US elections has been running for more than 50 years.
What is the American National Election Study (ANES)?