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Political Socialization

Where people acquire political views, attitudes, and knowledge through family, schools, peer groups, mass media, race, religion, income, ethnicity

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Party Identification

Identifying/aligning yourself with a party

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Liberal

  • Changing the status quo

  • Environment has large impact on behavior, factors one cannot control: Gov should correct

    • poverty, racism, sexism, albelism

  • more gov economically, less gov socially

  • care/harm (racism)

  • fairness/cheating (affirmative action)

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Conservative

  • preserve status quo or return to historical position

  • One is responsible for their own happiness

  • more gov on social matters, less on economic

  • fairness/cheating

  • loyalty/betrayal (kneeling for flag, supporting troops)

  • authority/subversion (BLM and blue lives matter)

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Socialism

calls for public rather than private ownership of property and natural resources

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Libertarian

  • Freedom

  • Gov should have less control over people’s lives

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Centrist

Having moderate political views or policies

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Statist

Someone who favors a political system in which the state has control over social and economic affairs

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The Political Spectrum

  • left

  • moderate

  • right

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Status Quo

The existing state of social or political issues

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Radical

Intent to transform of replace the principles of a political system often through social change

  • often left-wing

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Reactionary

One who opposes political or social liberalization or reform

  • one who opposes the removal or loosening of restrictions on economic or political systems

  • often right-wing

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Census

  • Counting every person living in the U.S. regardless of citizenship status

  • in Article 1 of Constitution

  • Every 10 years

  • collecting data

    • affects reallocation of funds

    • reapportionment

      • how many representatives in the House of Re[s each state gets

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Minority Majority

Eventually, white people will be the minority and minority groups together will be the majority

  • Asians and Hispanics populations have been increasing

  • birthrates have been higher among minorities

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Political Culture

An overall set of values widely shared within a society

  • ex: equality in America

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Reapportionment

Reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every 10 years based on Census`

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Redistricting

drawing electoral district boundaries to account for population shifts

  • ensuring that each district has roughly the same population

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Gerrymandering

  • When party in power in state draws district boundaries to benefit themselves

  • redistricting that helps party in power win elections by weakening voting power of the other party’s citizens

  • Packing

    • drawing districts so all opponents are concentrated in one area

  • Cracking

    • breaking up opponents so they can’t have a majority anywhere

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Random Sampling

everyone has an equal chance/opportunity of being picked

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Sampling error

Measure of how accurate results of a survey are

  • ± 3% accounts for good range

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Exit Poll

To predict electoral winners with speed and precision using public opinion surveys

  • widely criticized

    • discourages people from voting and affects outcome of state and local races

  • altering wording of question can manipulate results

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Gender Gap

  • Women are more likely to support Democrats because they’re less conservative than men

  • More likely to support spending on social services and to oppose higher levels of military spending

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Scarcity

  • Limited resources to meet unlimited wants

  • scarcity of resources sets up prices of things

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Need

Something necessary for survival

  • food, shelter, saftey

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Want

An item we desire but is not essential to survival

  • phones, makeup, etc.

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Opportunity cost

The value of trade-offs

  • What will I lose from option A if I choose option B?

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Sunk Cost

Money is spent that cannot be recovered

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There is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Just because something seems free doesn’t mean it is. That money is coming from somewhere.

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Supply

Amount of goods or services

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Demand

Amount of goods and services people want/willing to buy

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Normal Goods

Increase in demand for a good when consumer’s income increases

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Inferior Goods

Decrease in demand when one’s income increases.

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Complements

Goods/services that can be used together

  • ex: milk and cereal

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Substitutes

Goods and services that can be used in place of others

  • Indirect subs: video games for board games

  • Direct subs: Coke for Pepsi

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1962 Baker v. Carr

Gave the Supreme Court the authority to review redistricting by the states by using the 14th amendment to justify the decision

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1993 Shaw v. Reno

Prohibited race based gerrymandering

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Political Parties

A linkage institution that helps communicate people’s preferences to the government institutions —> get candidates elected

number one goal is getting candidates elected

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Ticket Splitting

People vote for members of both parties

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Tripartite Model

  1. Party in Electorate

    • shaped by party identification

    • not monolithic (ticket splitting is popular)

    1. Decline is major party affilation

      • more independents than ever before —> polarization of Congress

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Party as Organization

  • operates as an organization 365 days a year

    • writes party platform

    • funds and supports logistics for campaigns

    • run by a national committee

      • party representatives from all states and territories

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Party in Government

  • parties form coalitions in government to gain majorities to pass legislation

    • groups comprised of different types of people that work or vote together to accomplish a common goal

  • parties are responsible for turning their platform into policy

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