1. BULLSEYE VOCABULARY UNIT 2

2. Political Culture, Political Socialization, Particiapation Good Luck on your Test!!!!

3. The science of population changes?

4. Demography

5. Most valuable method of understanding demographic changes in America?

6. Census

7. The distribution of the population’s beliefs about politics and policy issues?

8. Public Opinion

9. A process where demographic changes in the United States population translates into political consequences?

10. reapportionment

11. The emergence of a non- Caucasian majority, as compared with a white, generally Anglo-Saxon majority is often referred to as?

12. Minority Majority

13. The percentage of whites living below the poverty level?

14. 10 percent

15. The largest racial/ethnic minority group in the U.S.?

16. Hispanics

17. Congressional act that required as of 1987 that employers document citizenship or legal immigrant status of their employees or face criminal charges?

18. Simpson- Mazzoli

19. Reapportionment occurs after every census to reallocate seats in?

20. House of Representatives

21. The process through which an individual acquires his or her particular political orientations, including knowledge, feelings, and evaluations regarding the political world?

22. Political socialiation

23. Scientific public opinion polling was first begun in 1932 by?

24. George Gallup

25. Because it is expensive to ask every American his or her opinion, polls rely on?

26. Sample

27. In public opinion polls, a sample how small can represent the “universe” of Americans?

28. 1,500

29. What is the key to the accuracy of a public opinion poll?

30. Random sampling

31. This term refers to how close a sample estimate is to the real population?

32. Sampling Error

33. What principle does random sampling in public opinion polling operate?

34. Everyone should have a equal probability of being selected

35. 1936 Literary Digest poll underestimated the vote for President Roosevelt because of what error?

36. Sample was drawn from phone books and motor vehicle records

37. What percentage of public opinion polls have a sampling error?

38. 100 Percent

39. Randomly selecting voting places around the country and asking every tenth person how they voted is?

40. An Exit Poll

41. What happened after the Presidential election of 1964 and Watergate?

42. Public trust in government dropped significantly

43. A coherent set of values and beliefs about public policy?

44. Political ideology

45. When asked about their ideology most people say they are?

46. moderate

47. Favors free-market solutions, low taxes, right to life, increased military spending, family values?

48. Conservative

49. Which party believes the government has become too large and wide ranging?

50. Republican

51. The regular pattern by which women are more likely to support Democratic candidates than are men is?

52. Gender Gap

53. Most liberal religious group in America?

54. The Jews

55. belief that in order to support democratic government a citizen should always vote is a belief in the nation of?

56. Civic duty

57. Suffrage means?

58. Right to Vote

59. What has happened as the right to vote has been extended?

60. Fewer eligible voters are voting

61. The most frequent reason voters give for not voting on election day?

62. Could not take time off of work or school

63. If people have a high sense of political efficacy, are able to see policy differences that affect their interests, and have a high sense of civic duty are?

64. More likely to vote

65. The belief that ordinary people can influence the government is known as?

66. Political Efficacy

67. If you believe that “public officials don’t care much about what people like me think,” then you are expressing feelings of?

68. Low political efficacy

69. If you believe citizens should vote in order to support democratic government then you believe in?

70. Civic duty

71. What did states adopt in order to prevent corruption associated with stuffing the ballot box?

72. Voter registration

73. What major reason was cited from America’s level of voter turnout compared to other industrialized countries?

74. Registration is more cumbersome in the United States

75. Compared to other countries the turnout of voters in the U.S. is?

76. Much Lower

77. This required states to register individuals to vote when they apply for, or renew, their driver’s license?

78. Motor Voter Act of 1993

79. What was the impact of the Motor Voter Act of 1993?

80. Higher registration and lower turnout from 1996-2000

81. What group of people have the lowest voter turnout rate?

82. Young People

83. People with higher than average education?

84. Vote more than people with lower educational levels

85. How much of the population votes?

86. Just over one-half

87. Who votes more, African Americans or whites?

88. Whites

89. President Bush stated “When you win there is a feeling that the people have spoken and embraced your point of view, and that’s what I intend to tell Congress,” he was expressing?

90. Mandate Theory of Elections

91. When people base their choices in an election on their own issue preferences?

92. Policy voting

93. Why was the Electoral College originally established?

94. To give the nation’s elite the power to choose the President and Vice President rather than the people directly

95. When President Hoover and the Republicans were crushed in the election of 1932, voters were responding to the severity of the Great Depression by?

96. Retrospective voting