A set of political beliefs that forms a perspective on the political world, on desired political outcomes, and how politics work.
What is Ideology?
100
The distribution of citizen opinion on matters of public concern or interest.
What is Public Opinion?
100
The public learns from what it sees discussed in the media and cannot learn about issues that are not taken up by the media.
What is The Educational Effect?
100
The emotional and intellectual commitment of a voter to his or her preferred party.
What is Party Identification?
100
An economic system run by the merchant class (the wealthy).
What is Capitalism?
200
Known as the defender of Capitalism, this ideology has multiple factions within it.
What is Liberalism?
200
The most important and influential agent of political socialization.
What is Family?
200
The demand for objectivity in journalism required that reports present readers with facts and information rather than opinion and interpretation.
What is Objectivity?
200
A legal or constitutional device that allows voters to remove an offensive officeholder before the normal end of his or her term.
What is Recall?
200
Socrates said that social, mental and physical fitness were necessary to have this.
What is Justice?
300
This ideology seeks to create social justice in the work place and greater economic equality more generally.
What is Socialism?
300
If you were conducting an in-depth interview with ten to fifteen people, you would be conducting this.
What is a Focus Group?
300
Passed in 1966, this act requires government agencies to provide citizens, including the press, with most kinds of information in their possession.
What is the Freedom of Information Act?
300
Which American political parties emphasized the importance of a limited government?
What are Jeffersonian Republicans and Jacksonian Democrats?
300
The father of Capitalism.
Who is Adam Smith?
400
Daily Double!!!
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400
A sampling model in which every person in the target population has an identical chance of being selected for the sample to be polled.
What is Probability Sampling?
400
Established by the communications act of 1934, this is a five-member commission empowered to regulate media in the public interest.
What is the FCC? (Federal Communications Commission)
400
The permanent structure of party offices and officials who administer the party apparatus on a day-to-day basis.
What is the Party Organization?
400
Thrasymachus, Socrates, and Plato all discussed this idea at length.
What is Justice?
500
A reactionary system that wants to return to pre-industrial society. (it's implementation can have devastating effects)
What is Fascism?
500
The persons, such as parents and teachers, and settings, such as families and schools, that carry out the political socialization process.
What are Agents of Socialization?
500
This dramatically affects how elections are conducted and how government works.
What is The Media?
500
Electoral rules influence party systems: Majoritarian systems usually produce two-party systems, and proportional representation systems usually produce multiparty systems.
What is Duverger's Law?
500
This looks a lot like nationalism, but with religion instead of DNA.