Political Science Flashcards
What are the five core beliefs of Americans?
Liberty
Equality
Individualism
Democracy
Civic Responsibility
What are reinforcing cleavages?
Consistencies across demographics that create more homogeneous groups and confirm the relationship between demographics and political views.
What are cross cutting cleavages?
Divisions within demographics that produce different groups and prove that a persons demographics doesn’t have anything to do with political views.
What were the terms radical, liberal, conservative and other meant to describe generally? What time period were they used to describe these people?
How much change people want.
1700s
How much change do radicals want?
A lot (extreme)
How much change do liberals want?
A little (compared to radicals)
How much change do conservatives want?
None
How much change do reactionary’s want?
No change but want to go back to old times.
What’s are the modern categories, liberals, conservatives, libertarians, and socialists can be put into in terms of government involvement in economy and social laws?
Liberals: involved in economy, not involved in social laws
Conservatives: not involved in economy, but involved in social laws
Libertarians: not involved in economy nor social laws
Socialists: involved in both economy and social laws
