Term
|
Definition
| :What the public thinks about a particular issue or set of issues at any point in time. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :Interviews or surveys with samples of citizens that are used to estimate the feelings and beliefs of the entire population. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :Unscientific surveys used to gauge public opinion on a variety of issues and policies. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :The process through which an individual acquires particular political orientations; the learning process by which people acquire their political beliefs and values. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :The coherent set of values and beliefs about the purpose and scope of government held by groups and individuals. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :A method of poll selection that gives each person in a group the same chance of being selected. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :A variation of random sampling; census data are used to divide the country into four sampling regions. Sets of counties and standard metropolitan statistical areas are then randomly selected in proportion to the national population. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :Polls taken for the purpose of providing information on an opponent that would lead respondents to vote against that candidate. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :Continuous surveys that enable a campaign to chart its daily rise of fall in support. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :Polls conducted at selected polling places on Election Day. |
|
|
Term
| Sampling Error On Margin Of Error |
|
Definition
| :A measure of the accuracy of a public opinion poll. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| : A group of office holders, candidates, activists, and voters who identify with a group label and seek to elect to public office individuals who run under this label. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :The office holders and candidates who run under a political party's banner. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :The workers and activists who staff the party's formal organization. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :The voters who consider themselves allied or associated with the party. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :A party organizational that recruits its members with tangible incentives and is characterized by a high degree of control over member activity. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :The selection of party candidates through the ballots of qualified voters rather than at party nomination conventions. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :These acts removed the staffing of the bureaucracy from political parties and created a professional bureaucracy filled through competition. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :Politics that focuses on specific issues rather than on party, candidate, or other loyalties. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :To vote for candidates of different parties for various offices in the same election. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :A group of interests or organizations that join forces for the purpose of electing public officials. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :A statement of the general and specific philosophy and policy goals of a political party, usually promugulated at the national convention. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :A party conclave (meeting) held in the presidential election year for the purposes of nominating a presidential and vice presidential ticket and adopting a platform. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :Institutional collection of policy-oriented researchers and academics who are sources of policy ideas. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :A citizen's personal affinity for a political party, usually expressed by his or her tendency to vote for the candidates of that party. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| :The tendency of third parties to arise with some regularity in a nominally two-party system. |
|
|
Term
| Proportional Representation |
|
Definition
| :A voting system that apportions legislative seats according to the percentage of the vote won by a particular political party. |
|
|
