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| Families, schools, television, peer groups, and other influences that contribute to political socialization by shaping formal and especially informal learning about politics. |
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| Governmental regulation of media content. |
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| A form of political participation that reflects a conscious decision to break a law believed to be immoral and to suffer the consequences. |
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| A political ideology whose advocates fear the growth of government, deplore government’s drag on private-sector initiatives, dislike permissiveness in society, and place a priority on military needs over social needs. |
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| The science of population changes. |
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| Public opinion surveys used by major media pollsters to predict electoral winners with speed and precision. |
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| A term that refers to the regular pattern by which women are more likely to support Democratic candidates. |
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| A political ideology whose advocates prefer a government active in dealing with human needs, support individual rights and liberties, and give higher priority to social needs than to military needs. |
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| The mixing of cultures, ideas, and peoples that has changed the American nation. |
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| The emergence of a non-Caucasian majority, as compared with a White, generally Anglo-Saxon majority. |
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| An overall set of values widely shared within a society. |
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| A coherent set of beliefs about politics, public policy, and public purpose. It helps give meaning to political events, personalities, and policies. |
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| All the activities used by citizens to influence the selection of political leaders or the policies they pursue. |
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According to Richard Dawson, “the process through which an individual acquires his [or her] particular political orientations—his [or
her] knowledge, feelings, and evaluations regarding his [or her] political world.” |
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| A form of political participation designed to achieve policy change through dramatic and unconventional tactics. |
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| The distribution of the population’s beliefs about politics and policy issues. |
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| A technique used by pollsters to place telephone calls randomly to both listed and unlisted numbers when conducting a survey. |
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| The key technique employed by sophisticated survey researchers, which operates on the principle that everyone should have an equal probability of being selected for the sample. |
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| The process of reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every ten years on the basis of the results of the census. |
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| A relatively small proportion of people who are chosen in a survey so as to be representative of the whole. |
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| The level of confidence in the findings of a public opinion poll. The more people interviewed, the more confident one can be of the results. |
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