Political opinion and political socialization Flashcards
American National Election Studies (ANES)
Social science surveys, from colleges, funded by national gov, surveys political attitudes and behavior
Conservative
holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion.
George Gallop
The founder of modern day polling-leaders must constantly take public opinion no matter how short lived into account, predicted winner of Landon vs Roosevelt, still around today
Political Socialization
The process through which individuals acquire their political beliefs and values, born into most characteristics
Liberal
open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.
Libertarian
a person who believes in the doctrine of free will.
Margin Of Error
A measure of The accuracy of a public opinion poll, 4%
Moderate
average in amount, intensity, quality, or degree.
Political Ideology
An ideology is a set of opinions or beliefs of a group or an individual. Very often ideology refers to a set of political beliefs or a set of ideas that characterize a particular culture.
Sampling Error
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.
Population
all the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country.
Straw Polls
Unscientific survey used to gauge public opinion on a variety of issues and policies- used to predict president in literary digest
Flaws- over sampled middle class, took poll too early, self selected/highly motivated people replied
Tracking Polls
Continuous surveys that enables a campaign or news organization to Chat a candidates daily rise or fall in support, every 24 hours.
Social Conservative
usually refers to a political ideology that involves traditional, historical views on the definition of marriage, life, sexuality, and religion.
Statist
an advocate of a political system in which the state has substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs.
exit polls
Polls conducted as voters leave selected polling places on Election Day, predict outcomes
push polls
Polls taken for the purpose of providing information on an opponent that would be respondents to vote against that candidate, cross the line
public opinion polls
Interviews or surveys with samples of citizens that are used to estimate the feelings and beliefs of the entire population
public opinion
the collective opinion of many people on some issue, problem, etc., especially as a guide to action, decision, or the like.
random sampling
A method of poor selection that gives each person in a group the same chance of being selected
stratified sampling
A variation of random sampling; the population is divided into subgroups and Weighed base and demographic characteristics of the national population
sample
A subset of the whole population selected to be questions for the purpose of predicting or gauging opinion