American Gov Ch. 6 - supplemental
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
