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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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| Individual's views and preferences about public policies, political parties, candidates, government institutions, and public officials. |
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| Political attitudes and core beliefs expressed by ordinary citizens as revealed by surveys. |
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| An interview study asking questions of a set of people who are chosen as representative of the whole population. |
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| The selection of survey respondents by chance, with equal probability, to ensure their represntaativeness of the whole population. |
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| The process by which individuals come to hvae certain core beliefs and political attitudes. |
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| Those institutions and individuals that shape the core beliefs and attitudes of people. |
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| The sense of belonging to one or another political party. |
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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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| A system of interrelated and coherently patterned beliefs and attitudes. |
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| Collective public opinion |
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| The political attitudes of the public as a whole, expressed as averages, percentages, or other summaries of many individuals' opinions. |
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| The notion that collective public opinion is rational in the sense that it is generally stable and consistent and that when it changes it does so as an understandable response to events, to changing circumstances, and to new information. |
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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 a president's "handling of his job." |
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| People who claim to be independents but say they consistently favor one party over another. |
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| People who favor private enterprise and oppose government regulations on spending. |
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| People who favor government regulation of business and government spending for social programs. |
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| Social (lifestyle) liberals |
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| People who favor civil liberties, abortion rights, and alternative lifestyles. |
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| Social (lifestyle) conservatives |
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| People who favor traditional social values; they tend to support strong law-and-order measures and oppose abortion and gay rights. |
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| Citizens' preferences concerning what policies they want government to pursue. |
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| The policy of avoiding involvement in foreign affairs. |
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| The stance toward foreign policy that suggests that the United States should seek the cooperation of other nations and mulilateral institutions in pursuing its goals. |
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| The stance toward foreign policy that suggests that the United States should "go it alone," pursuing its national interests without seeking the cooperation of other nations or multilateral institutions. |
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| The role of the media in scrutinizing the actions of government officials. |
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| The common term for a weblog, a website on which an individual or group posts text, photos, audio files, and more, on a regular bass for others to view and respond to. |
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| Digital audio and video files made readily available to interested people via computers and portable devices. |
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| Organizations such as the Associated Press and Reuters that gather and disseminate news to other news organizations. |
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| Term used to suggest that media corporations are so large, powerful, and interconnected that alternative voices to the economically and politically powerful cannot have their views aired. |
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| The merging of hard news and eneterntainment in news presentations. |
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| The assigned location where a reporter regularly gathers news stories. |
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| Inside or secret information given to a journalist or media outlet by a government official. |
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| The attempt by those in political power to shape the presentation of news about them and their policies in a favorable light. |
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| The attempt by public officials to have a story reported in terms that favor them and their policies. |
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| Worth printing or broadcasting as news, according to editors' judgments. |
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| News reported with no evaluative language and with any opinions quoted or attributed to a specific source. |
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| Somewhat derisive term for print, broadcast, and radio commentators on the political news. |
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| Deviation from some ideal standard, such as representativeness or objectivity. |
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| Influencing what people consider important. |
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| Providing a context for interpretation. |
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| The government's power to prevent publication, as opposed to punishment afterward. |
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| The former requirement that television stations present contrasting points of view. |
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| The former requirement that television stations give or sell the same amount of time to all competing candidates. |
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