APGOVCH.10.Cecilia.Martinez

Question 1

American National Election Studies (ANES)

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academically-run national surveys of voters in the United States, conducted before and after every presidential election.

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Conservative

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Generally believe in personal responsibility, limited government, free markets, individual liberty, traditional American values and a strong national defense. Also believe the role of government should be to provide people the freedom necessary to pursue their own goals.

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Exit Polls

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a poll of people leaving a polling place, asking how they voted.

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George Gallup

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was an American pioneer of survey sampling techniques and inventor of the Gallup poll, a successful statistical method of survey sampling for measuring public opinion.

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Liberal

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believe that government is necessary to protect individuals from being harmed by others, but they also recognize that government itself can pose a threat to liberty.

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Libertarian

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a collection of political philosophies and movements that uphold liberty as a core principle.

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Margin of error

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a measure of the accuracy of a public opinion poll. political socialization. the process through which individuals acquire their political beliefs and values.

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Moderate

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Voters who describe themselves as centrist.

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Political Ideology

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set of related beliefs about political theory and policy held by an individual, group of individuals or a particular social class.

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Political Socialization

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the process by which people form their ideas about politics.

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Population

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A group of individuals of the same species occupying a particular geographic area.

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Public Opinion

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the distribution of individual preferences or evaluations of a given issue, candidate, or institution within a specific population.

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Public Opinion polls

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an unscientific survey used to gauge public opinion.

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Push polls

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an ostensible opinion poll in which the true objective is to sway voters using loaded or manipulative questions.

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Random sampling

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Method of selecting from a population in which each person has an equal probability of being selected.

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Sample

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methods of selecting individuals to include in a study where each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected.

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Sampling error

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a statistical error that occurs when an analyst does not select a sample that represents the entire population of data and the results found in the sample do not represent the results that would be obtained from the entire population.

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Social conservative

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a political ideology focused on the preservation of traditional values and beliefs, hearkening back to values believed to be present at the American founding.

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Stratified Sampling

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refers to a type of sampling method.

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Straw polls

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an unofficial ballot conducted as a test of opinion.

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Tracking polls

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a series of individual surveys repeated continuously over time to measure attitudinal and behavioral changes in a target population.

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Statist

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an advocate of a political system in which the state has substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs.