Apsuh Vocab Quiz March

Push Polls

A special type of poll that both attempts to skew public opinion about a candidate and provides information to campaigns about candidate strengths and weaknesses.

Political Socialization

The process by which we develop our political values and opinions.

Random sampling

A scientific method of selection in which each member of the population has an equal chance of being included in the sample.

Sampling error (margin of error)

A statistical calculation of the difference in results between a poll of a randomly drawn sample and a poll of the entire population.

Public opinion poll

A survey of a population's opinion on an issue or candidate at a specific point in time.

Public opinion

The public's expressed views about an issue.

Generational Effect

The influence of a significant external event in shaping the views of a generation.

Tracking Polls

Measures change in public opinion over a time period by asking the same questions over and over and measuring changes in opinion.

Budget Deficit

When there is more money being spent than is coming in through revenue.

Consumer Price Index (CPI)

This is the most common way to measure inflation, it gauges the average change in prices of some common goods and services over time.

Human Development Index (HDI)

This is a measure created by the UN to determine a certain country's standard of living.

Keynesian Economics

A form of economic governance that recommends the government take action during recessions or economic hardships. They say the government should increase spending in order to create more jobs and provide more opportunities.

Supply side economics

A form of economics that recommends the government step aside and cut taxes and regulations in order to increase the ability of business to supply things.

Government subsidy

Tax breaks and financial support from the government that encourage or incentivize people or companies to invest in certain products.

National Debt

The total amount of money that the government owes individuals that it has loaned.

Poverty

The condition at which one does not have the sufficient means to buy themselves necessities for an adequate living standard.

Economy

A system of using buying and selling goods and services.

American Dream

The belief that in the United States, hard work and perseverance will eventually lead to a happy, healthy life.

Climate change

A pattern of significant changes in regional and/or global temperature, precipitation, wind patterns, and other measures of climate that occur over several decades.

NIMBY 'Not in my backyard' syndrome

A pattern of citizens' behavior in which people often are not inspired to participate in politics until a government action or inaction threatens them directly.

Food insecurity

The situation in which people have a limited or an uncertain ability to obtain, in socially acceptable ways, enough nutritious food to live a healthy and active life.

Housing insecurity

The situation in which people have limited or uncertain ability to obtain, in socially acceptable ways, affordable, safe, and decent-quality permanent housing.

Environmental Racism

The term used to describe the higher incidence of environmental threats and subsequent health problems in lower-income communities, which frequently are also communities dominated by people of color.

Feminization of Poverty

The phenomenon of increasing numbers of unmarried, divorced, and separated women with children living in poverty.

Living wage

A wage high enough to keep workers and their families out of poverty and to allow them to enjoy a basic living standard.

Safety net programs

A collection of public policies aimed at ensuring that citizens' basic physiological needs are met.

Truman Doctrine

President Harry Truman's foreign policy commitment by the US to assist other countries' efforts in resisting Cold War-era Communism.

Domino theory

Widely accepted belief in the US that if a country fell to Communism, then the surrounding countries would do the same.

Warsaw Pact

Regional security alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite states. Response to the creation of NATO.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

A regional security alliance established in 1949. NATO created the framework for regional security by declaring that an armed attack on any of the 15 countries was an attack on all.

Roosevelt Corollary

The idea, advanced by President Theodore Roosevelt, that the United States has the right to act as an 'international police power' in the western Hemisphere to ensure stability in the region.

World Trade Organization (WTO)

In 1995, the WTO replaced the GATT. The GATT was a compilation of agreements while the WTO was an actual organization that implements and enforces the trade agreements between the 159 member nations.

Foreign Service Officers

The diplomatic and consular staff at American embassies abroad. They are responsible for negotiating many types of different trade agreements.