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people who identify with a party, vote in elections, and participate in additional party and party-candidate activities
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| an economic system characterized by private ownership of productive assets where decisions about how to use these assets are made by individuals and firms operating in a market rather than government |
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| Collective Public Opinion |
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the political attitudes of the public as a whole, expressed as averages or percentages
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| the political position which holds that the federal government ought to play a very small role in economic regulation, social welfare, and overcoming racial inequality |
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| individual's views about the fundamental nature of human beings, society, and economy; taken together, they comprise the political culture |
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| people who favor private enterprise, minimal regulation of business and low taxes |
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| people who favor government regulation of businesses and government spending for social programs |
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| the policy of avoiding involvement in the affairs of other countries |
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| people who claim to be independents but say they consistently favor one party over another |
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| the political position that holds that the federal government has a substantial role to play in economic regulation, social welfare, and overcoming racial inequality |
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the stance toward foreign policy that suggests that the United States should seek the cooperation of other nations and multilateral institutions in pursuing its goals;
one who believes the United States should use its military and diplomatic power in the world in cooperation with other nations and international organizations |
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| the sense of belonging to one or another political party |
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citizens' preferences concerning what policies they want government to pursue
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| the sense that an individual can affect what government does |
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a system of interrelated and coherently patterned beliefs and attitudes
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| the process by which individuals come to have certain core beliefs and political attitudes |
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| Presidential Approval Rating |
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| a president's standing with the public, indicated by the percentage of Americans who tell survey interviewers that they approve of the presidents "handling of his job" |
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| political attitudes and core beliefs expressed by ordinary citizens as revealed by surveys |
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| the selection of survey respondents by chance, with equality probability, to ensure their representativeness of the whole population |
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| an interview study asking questions of a set of people at random to represent the whole population |
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| people who favor traditional social values; they tend to support law-and-order measures and oppose abortion and gay rights |
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| people who favor civil liberties, abortion rights, and the right of people to pursue alternative lifestyles |
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the stance toward foreign policy that suggest that the United States should "go it alone", pursuing its national interests without seeking the cooperation of other nations or multilateral organizations;
one who believes the United States should vigorously use its military and diplomatic power to pursue American national interests in the world, but on a "go it alone" basis |
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| stable, individual level traits |
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| a feeling about or toward a particular object |
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the way that we calculate how skewed our sample size is from what the population should look like;
determines how far the sample proportion will be from the true population proportion with a specified degree of confidence |
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| those institutions and individuals that shape the core beliefs and attitudes of people |
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| a poll of voters as they leave the voting by the news media in order to predict the outcome of an election |
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| The discrepancy in opportunities, status, attitudes, etc., between men and women |
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| a theory that essentially states that older generations with their broad collective ideals will be replaced by their children and their children’s children who have their own and often different ideas of what is socially acceptable |
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system of ideas and ideals, esp. one that forms the basis of economic or political policy |
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politicians who are not affiliated with any political party |
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| public opinion keeps political leaders from straying too far from acceptable parameters given by the public |
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