Govt Unit 3
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- The population attempts to influence public policy through two basic avenues
- 1.Aggregate 2.Organized Interests
- Aggregate influences on public policy
- Survey Research, and Voting
- Organized Interests
- Interest Groups, Political Parties, Media
- Attempts at influencing public policy must be
- Salient(relevant), Informed, and Consistent(opinions, etc.)
- Patterns of Populace Participation in Tx
- Apathetis, Spectators, Gladiators
- Apathetics "would rather be..."
- out on the lake
- Apathetics are__% of the populace
- 55
- Apathetics consistently do/do not vote
- Do not
- Texas consistently ranks __ in voting percentage among states in the US
- 45
- Apathetics do not consistently
- Pay attention to political news
- Apathetics' claims of political affiliations have no...
- efficacy
- Spectators ___ the game
- Watch
- Spectators are __% of the tx populace
- 35
- Spectators do/do not consistently vote
- DO
- Spectators do/do not pay attention to political news
- do
- Spectators are an effective political affiliation during what elections?
- presidential and congressional elections
- Gladiators ___ the game
- play
- Gladiators form ___% of the Tx populace
- 10
- Gladiators do/do not consistently vote
- do
- Gladiators do/do not pay attention to political news and events
- DO
- Gladators are/are not often candidates for office
- are
- Gladiators mobilize spectators between major elections
- only when necessary
- Gladiators are ___% of the voters in local elections
- 75
- Gladiators are ___% in state and congressional elections
- 33
- Gladiators are ___% of the voters in presidential elections
- 20
- Political scientists explain patterns of political participation through...
- Political Socialization
- The three most commonly cited sources of socialization are:
- The family of origin, peer groups, and formal education
- The strongest agent of political socialization is
- The family of origin
- The family of origin pertains to
- the association between parents and children
- the ____ theory pertains to the family of origin
- Onion skin
- The second strongest agent of political socialization is
- formal education
- Studies show that higher education rates lead to a ___ particiation rate
- high
- The third strongest agent of political socialization is
- Peer Groups
- Peer groups are strong/weak for adolescents, but not political matters
- Strong
- These give us insight into historically high levels of political apathy
- Legal constraints
- What are 3 legal constraints to voting?
- Property requirements in colonial America, gender requirements until 1920, and Racial Requirement in Tx until 1965
- What were the 3 things that liberated racial requirements?
- The 15th ammendment, supreme court decision in 1915, and 1944
- The supreme court decision to do away with literacy tests occurred in
- 1915
- The supreme court decision to do away with white primaries occurred in
- 1944
- Are either political parties or interest groups mentioned in the constitution?
- no
- Political Parties have ___ organizations
- electoral
- Political parties seek ____ of government____
- control;institutions
- Political parties have an ____ agenda with populace
- Inclusive
- Political parties have ___ major organizations
- two
- Political parties are accused of being ____ and _____
- diluted;superficial
- Political parties are now legally considered quasi-____
- public
- Interest Groups have ___ organizations
- Lobby
- Interest groups seek ____ through elected/appointed ____
- influence; officials
- Interest Groups have an _____ agenda often ignoring the general populace
- Exclusive
- Interest Groups have _____ of organizations
- thousands
- Interest groups are accused of being ____ and _____
- narrow;selfish
- Interest groups are ____ but regulated by governments
- private
- Both interest groups and political parties are organizations created by the _____ using different _____ to influence public policy.
- populace;strategies
- From 1836 to mid 1850's political parties had ____ party influence
- little
- Mid 1850s to 1960s political parties were dominantly _____ except during the _____-
- Democratic;Reconstruction Era
- 1960s to 1990s Democrats had the ____, while other parties where _____
- "edge";present
- Social conservatives began to doubt the democrats because of what 2 things
- Civil rights and LBJ
- early 1990s to present, political parties were dominantly _____
- Republican
- Until the 1960s, Interest groups were
- dominated by a few groups
- since the early 1980s there has been a ____ of groups
- proliferation