Term
|
Definition
| philosophy that favors gov't actions |
|
|
Term
| issues included in domestic policy |
|
Definition
economics
law
education
health
energy
environment
civil liberties |
|
|
Term
| 5 influences on public opinions |
|
Definition
family
peers
events
institutions
Christ |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
"friend of the court"
testify/file briefs in attempt to influence court's decision |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| public service network created by american cable television industry; provide public w/ coverage of House and Senate proceedings |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Gov't can't review/censor info before presented to public |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| using various techniques to select and manipulate info so as to persuade or influence people effectively |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| philosophy that is reluctant to expand government authority |
|
|
Term
| Issues included in foreign policy |
|
Definition
diplomacy
trade relations
war |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| surveys of what public thinks bout certain stuff |
|
|
Term
| methods used by interest groups to influence public policy |
|
Definition
lobbying
public persuasion
protest and rallies
pac's
and court actions |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| international computer network originally developed by US Department of Defense as means of decentralizing info |
|
|
Term
| Freedom of Information Act |
|
Definition
| gives media and private individuals broad powers to investigate files of the federal bureaucracy |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| 2 exceptions to the media's freedom under the First Amendment |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| sum of gov't goals and actions made in response to public opinion |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| individual who has a middle-of-the-road political philosophy and tends to use a pragmatic approach to political issues |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| issues gov't decide to address |
|
|
Term
| define and give 2 characteristics of public opinions |
|
Definition
"those opinions held by private persons which gov't find it prudent to heed."
doesn't gauge public opinion by determining opinion of average am.
some issues retain public issues for decades |
|
|
Term
| ways public opinion is measured |
|
Definition
election
perceptions
opinion polls
scientific surveys
and other roadblocks to reliability |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| largest labor union in US |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| using media to gain public support |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| surveys taken as voters leave polling places |
|
|
Term
| Federal Communications Commission |
|
Definition
| gov't agency can impose fines on stations for broadcasting obscene language or engaging in false advertising |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| informal polls, non-representative polls |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| committees formed by special-interest groups to raise money and make contributions to specific individuals' campaigns or causes |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| degree of legal protection of confidentiality; protect journalist rights to refuse to divulge the identity of secret source |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| published false statements that injure one's reputation |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| attempt to influence public officials in support of a group's special interest |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| false oral communication that injures one's reputation |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| sum of gov't goals and actions made in response to public opinions |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| opinions held by private persons which gov't find prudent to head |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| 1st pres to use word "liberal" to describe his policy |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| reluctant to expand gov't authority (and maintaining the status quo) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| don't want to be labled one or other (liberal or conservatism) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
affect a siezable population of public (pervasive)
significant impact on public (intensive)
public see's issue as problem gov't should deal w/ (relative) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| affairs/policies involving other countries |
|
|
Term
| origins of public opinion |
|
Definition
family
peers
events
institutions
Christ |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| group that is a fair representation of "the norm" |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| informal polls (idea/just for fun of it) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| survey's of what public thinks about particular subjects |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
poll not accurate
survey included only those w/ phones/cares which wasn't the norm
for 1936 |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
introduced more rigorous sampling in mother-in-law's 1932 campaign success of method in 1936 presidential campaign
(opinion poll,surveys of what public think) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| influence gov't officials bout some political issues/groups of issues. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
economic
social
single-interest groups
religious and ideological
civic groups |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| largest circulation (today) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
introduced at New York City's world fair
after WWII more availiable to families |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| guarantees freedom of the press so mass-media can print/broadcast w/out getting in trouble |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
govt can't sensor news b4 reported
exception... wartime |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| reporters may have to rely on secret source |
|
|
Term
| New York Times vs. Sullivan (1964) |
|
Definition
| (libel and slander) only considered unconstitutional if public figure acted recklessly in regards to truth |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
as of now, fcc doesn't control internet in 96 the computer decency act was passed...
1 yr. later supreme cour says it's unconstitutional |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
name calling
plain folks
bandwagon
testimonial
card stacking
glittering generalities
transfer |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
AFL-CIO
American Medical Association |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
AARP
National council on disability |
|
|
Term
Interest groups
Single-interest groups |
|
Definition
National right-to-life committee
NRA |
|
|
Term
Interest groups
religious and ideological |
|
Definition
Christian Coalition
Moral Majority |
|
|
Term
Interest groups
Civic groups |
|
Definition
League of Women Voters
Common Cause |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
newspapers
radio
tv
internet |
|
|
Term
| difference between political liberal and political conservative |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| ways campaigns use mass media |
|
Definition
| candidates stay on top of media so they have nothing bad to show about them |
|
|
