Chapter 6-7

Question 0

What political ideologies do Americans identify with?

Answer 0

Americans connect opinion and beliefs to candidates, choose by candidate personality, candidate timing, or wether they disliked them or not

Question 1

Differences between liberals and conservatives

Answer 1

Liberals want to spend less, don’t want war, against prayer in school, support freedom of choice(abortion), want to tax the rich
Conservatives support military intervention, supports the right to life, support prayer in school, keep taxes low,

Question 2

Census and purpose?

Answer 2

Critical tool for understanding demographic changes.
Measure change in population.
Held every 10 years

Question 3

Demography

define

Answer 3

Science of population change

Question 4

Public opinion

define

Answer 4

Distribution of the peoples thoughts about politics and policy issues

Question 5

Public policy

define

Answer 5

Choice made by government in response to political issue

Question 6

Policy agenda

define

Answer 6

Issue that attract serious attention of public officials and the people involved in politics

Question 7

Major demographic changes in United States

Answer 7

Age, people moving due to weather, technology advances

Question 8

Political socialization

define

Answer 8

Process where an individual decides their political orientation; feelings or knowledge to political world

Question 9

Bandwagon affect

define

Answer 9

People seeing that another person is voting in a certain candidate so they vote for that candidate too. Monkey see monkey do

Question 10

Sound byte and average length

Answer 10

Short video clips lasting 15 seconds usually showing politicians speech

Question 11

Trial ballon

define

Answer 11

News leak on purpose to see how the people will react

Question 12

Differences between US media and other countries

Answer 12

Other countries: government controls and owns networks, avoid criticism of the countries government

Question 13

What part of government does media cover mostly?

Answer 13

Drama that gets peoples attention,

Question 14

Exit poll and purpose

Answer 14

Public opinion survey, used by the media, pollsters, used to predict candidate winners with speed and accuracy.

Question 15

Methods of publics participation in politics

Answer 15

Protesting, filing law suits, writing to a mayor, senator, voting, taking polls

Question 16

Media source that has been declining over the past 50 years

Answer 16

Newspapers, magazines,

Question 17

Presidents that used media to their best advantage?

Answer 17

Reagan, Roosevelt, Kennedy

Question 18

Reapportionment

define

Answer 18

Re assigning seats in the House of Representatives ever 10 years on results of census

Question 19

Gender gap

Answer 19

Pattern showing women are most likely to support democratic candidates

Question 20

How FCC regulate airwaves

Answer 20

1⃣Limited # of stations owned by one company
2⃣examines goals and performance of stations( part of station license)
3⃣fair treatment rules dealing with access to airwaves for political candidates and office holders

Question 21

What is a beat?

Answer 21

Locations from which news comes from,like congress or white house