Vocabulary
Specific views on topics
What is political ideology?
Suspended the use of literacy tests, authorized the appointment of federal examiners who could order the registration of blacks people where less than half were voting or were registered to vote, and provided criminal penalties for interfering with the right to vote
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
A demographic that would have a higher voter turnout
What are older people, higher education, more religious people, and white voters?
An issue that’s not about money and is controversial
What is a culture war issue?
The most probable voting turnout of a minority, religious voter
Everybody should be held equally accountable under the law
What is Rule of Law?
Someone’s long-term psychological attachment or self-identification with a political party
What is partisan identification?
Reasons why voter turnout has been higher in presidential elections than in midterm elections
What are 4-year terms vs. 2-year terms, and presidential elections are more important?
How the political culture is measured
What are surveys, outside observations, books people read that are popular, and popular slogans?
Several organizations and institutions that people can voluntarily join (independent from the government) to interact and hold the government accountable
What is a civil society?
Self-expression is more important than morality
What is progressive?
People who are supporting the party
A factor that has contributed to the general decrease in federal elections in the latter half of the 20th century
What are mobility, a more diverse society, and efficacy?
Three or more factors that make up the political culture
What are liberty, equality, democracy, civic duty, civic competence, individual responsibility, the economic system, like equality of opportunity instead of equality of results, patriotism, more contentious than emphasizing harmony, external versus internal efficacy, freedom being more important than equality, the religious population, american exceptionalism, lack of class consciousness, mistrust of government, civil society, and political tolerance?
The ratification generally allowed women to vote, doubled the size of the voting population
What is the 19th Amendment?
The belief that someone has a chance to affect government policy, like protests
What is civic competence?
If there’s a huge event in the time between your teens and your twenties, you’re more likely to have a stronger opinion on politics
What is the impressionable years hypothesis?
The reason why a more diverse society results in a lower voter turnout
What are minorities increasing in population, and since minorities are taking over the population, and they don’t vote, the voter turnout decreases
The idea that there’s no one religion in the US
What is religious pluralism?
Political participants who vote
What are active participists, voting specialists, and communalists?
The government is challenged in court
What is adversarial culture?
Vote, but they join local groups and contact local representatives
What are communalists?
The five institutional obstacles to voting
What are registration, the number of elections, the two-party system, Tuesday election day, and VAP + VEP?
Why distrust in the government has increased
The confidence in government would drop after the 1950s because it was so high, Vietnam War, Watergate, and wars
Three reasons that decide how people vote
Partisan identification, candidate and campaign appeal, and issues (retrospective + prospective voting)