Chapter 7
Terms
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- Plurality
- A electoral system in which the winner is the person who gets the most votes, even if he or she does not receive the majority
- Gender Gap
- Difference in political views of men and women
- Poll
- A survey of public opinion
- Liberals
- political ideology that seeks to maximize individual liberties
- Populists
- Are liberal on economic matters and conservative on social ones.
- Political Socailization
- Process by which back ground traits influence one's political views
- Libertarian
- Conservative on economic matters and liberal on social ones
- Political Elite
- Persons with disproportionate share of political power
- Pure Conservative
- Conservative on both economic and political issues
- Pure Liberals
- Liberal on both economic policy and personal conduct
- Conservative
- Political Ideology that favors principles of limited government, personal responsibility and moral values
- Elite
- People who have an disproportionate amount of some valued resource
- Norm
- A standard of right and proper conduct
- Sampling Error
- The difference between the results of random samples taken at the same time
- Random Sample
- Method of selecting from a population in which each person has an equal probability of being selected
- Political Ideology
- A more or less consistent set of beliefs about what policies government ought to pursue
- Exit Poll
- Polls based on interviews conducted on election day with randomly selected voters
- Public Opinion
- How people think or feel about particular things