American Gov Ch. 6 - supplemental

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Historically, dramatic change in party identification is uncommon and is almost always a consequence of...

major upheaval

Process by which individuals acquire political opinions...

political socialization

A properly drawn sample of one thousand individuals has a sampling error of roughly plus or minus...

3%

Friedrich Engels believed that communism would not take root in the United States because

American workers lacked sufficient class consciousness

Defining "public opinion, the author states that the politically relevant opinions of private individuals become public opinion when they...

are openly expressed

The two distinguishing characteristics of political socialization...

Political socialization is cumulative, and it is most heavily developed during childhood.

A person who favors government intervention in both social and economic affairs is a...

populist

Which is the most powerful religious force in contemporary American society: religious right, Protestants, Catholics, Muslims, Jews

religious right

In general, public opinion...

sets limits on government action

The key factors in determining the accuracy of an opinion poll are...

size of sample and whether sample was selected from population randomly

You are LEAST likely to find a "blue state" in which region?

south

What was the primary cause for an increase in the public's support for a military invasion of Iraq during the six-month period leading to the start of the war?

the Bush administration's efforts to press the case for war

The society of Northern Ireland is presented by the text as a demonstration of what difference with U.S. society?

the lack of crosscutting between groups

To accurately poll the citizens of the United States as opposed to the citizens of a single state...

the sample requirements will be nearly the same

Women are less likely than men to favor...

the use of force to settle international disputes

Americans who attend religious services at least once a week are most likely to vote for which political party?

Republican

Which of the following is true of letter writers and demonstrators?

Their opinions tend to be more extreme than those of the population as whole

Which state is solidly democratic? Utah, Texas, Washington, Georgia, Idaho

Washington

Who once said that he spent nearly all his adult life in government and yet had never seen a government?

Woodrow Wilson

Which of the following would NOT be considered a secondary socializing agent?

church

Journalist Walter Lippmann suggested that...

effective government cannot be run by politicians that base their public opinions on poll results

Libertarians are opposed to governmental intervention...

in both the economic and social spheres

A conservative is opposed to government intervention...

in economic sphere but not social sphere

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann's "spiral of silence" theory contends that...

most individuals are reluctant to speak out against the dominant opinion

Which of the following is true of the relationship between public opinion and shifts in major government policies?

on highly salient and emotional issues in particular, public opinion tends to affect policy to a greater degree than policymakers' agendas affect public opinion

Selective perception is primarily a result of...

partisanship

As an agent of political socialization, the American family will likely have its greatest effect on an individual's...

party identification

Which is NOT a primary agent of socialization? family, peers, church, school

peers


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