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| the distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and policy issues |
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| the science of population changes |
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- a valuable tool for understanding demographic changes
- the U. S. Constitution requires that the government conduct an "actual enumeration" of the population every 10 years
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| the mixing of cultures, ideas, and peoples that has changed the American nation |
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| the emrgance 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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| the process of reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every 10 years on the basis of the results of the census |
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| the process through which a young person acquires political orientations as they grow up, based on inputs from parents, teachers, the media, and friends |
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| a relatively small proportion of the people who are chosen in a survey so as to be representative of the whole |
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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 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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| a technique used by pollsters to place telphone calls randomly to both listed and unlisted numbers when conducting a survey |
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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 coherent set of beliefs about politics, public policy, and public purpose
- helps give meaning to political events, personalities, and policies
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- a term that refers to the regular pattern by which women are more likely to support Democratic candidates
- women tend to be significantly less conservative than men and are more likely to support spending on social servise and to oppose higher levels of military spending
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- all the activites used by citizens to influence the selection of political leaders or the policies they pursue
- voting, protest, civil disobedience, etc.
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| a form of political participation designed to achieve policy change through dramatic and unconventional tactics |
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| a form of political participation rhat reflects a conscious decision to break a law believed to be immoral and to suffer the consequences |
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