Political Behavior
Falling between cultural values & surface opinions, these orientations are what non-ideological voters use to sort out their policy preferences?
What are political attitudes?
Term for the loyalties we hold that over time give structure & stability to election outcomes.
What is party identification? Or: "What is party in the electorate?"
These voters claim to be nonpartisan but most of them ultimately lean toward one party or the other, and they usually support it.
Who are independents?
He warned against the "baneful effects" of the spirit of party.
Who was George Washington?
Describes when a poll or survey gets the wrong answers because it asked questions to an unrepresentative group of responsents.
What is a selection effect? Or, what is selection bias?
This two-dimensional ideology graph puts authoritarians at the bottom because a libertarian designed it.
What is the Nolan Chart?
The first of these groups formed to help elect Andrew Jackson after he was denied victory in the 1824 election.
What are mass parties?
This was the famous newspaper headline published after the Gallup Organization screwed up their prediction for the 1948 election.
What is "Dewey Defeats Truman"?
The McGovern-Fraser Commission led to changes in Democratic Party rules so that these activities would have greater influence after 1968.
What are presidential primaries?
Negative term for someone who doesn't contribute to a group's efforts but will benefit from their work later.
What is a free rider?
This sort of ideologue is so opposed to political change that they want to go back to the way things used to be previously.
What is a reactionary?
What is South Carolina?
A Holocaust Poll in the Nineties used this linguistic construction, causing respondents to seem as though they were ignorant of history (if not racist).
What is a double negative?
These technologies allowed Americans with similar interests to coordinate with each other politically.
What are railroads and the telegraph?
Term for when the person higher in a chain of command struggles to exercise control over their subordinates.
What is the principal-agent problem?
These voters exist in large number but they could not form their own party because their beliefs are so varied.
What are moderates?
What is slavery?
Describes when survey respondents do not reveal their true opinions because they do not want to admit them to the interviewer.
What are social desirability effects?
Popular name for the organizations that would deliver votes in exchange for party patronage.
What were (urban) political machines?
Describes the phenomenon that takes place when candidates know their party is likely to suffer a bad year and choose not to run for office.
What are anticipatory effects? Or, what is the law of anticipated reactions.
The term for a voter who does not hold a clear ideology & instead develops opinions haphazardly.
What is "unconstrained"?
Name for the swath of states that GOP candidates typically could count on winning before the Obama Era.
What was the Republican L?
Describes when opinion researchers randomly divide their sample into two or more groups and then treat them differently.
"What is a split-sample design?" or "What is a survey experiment?"
Causes the collective-action problem to kick in when a group tries to produce these.
What are public goods?
Causes the collective-action problem to kick in when a group tries to produce these.
What are public goods?