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| Actions of private citizens by which they seek to influence or support gov and politics |
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| Conventional participation |
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Relatively routine political behavior that uses institutional channels and is acceptable to the dominate culture
(caused by democratic nature of a gov) |
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| unconventional participation |
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Uncommon behavior that changes or defies established institutions and dominant norms
(example: boston tea party/march from selma to montgomery) |
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| Unconventional participation that involves assembling crowds to confront businesses and local gov.s to demand a hearing |
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| Behavior that seeks to modify or reverse gov policy to serve political interests |
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| The right to vote (or franchise) |
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| The right to vote (or suffrage) |
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| A philosophy of political reform based on goodness and wisdom of the individual citizen as opposed to special interests and political institutions |
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| A preliminary election run by the state gov which the voters choose each party’s candidates for the general election |
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An election on a policy issue
(a direct vote by the people on an ammendment to state a constitution or on a proposed law) |
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| A procedure by which the voters can propose an issue to be decided by the legislator or by the people in a referendum. It requires gathering specified number of signatures and submitting a petition to a designated agency |
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| Standard socioeconomic model |
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| Relationship between socioeconomic status and conventional political involvement : people with higher status and more education are more likely to participate than those with lower (also white collar professionals are very likely to participate) |
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| Gave black women the right to vote |
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| voting rights act of 1965: |
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| says:suspended discrimintory voting tests and authorized federal supervision of voter registration in the south |
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