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| The distribution of the population’s beliefs about politics and policy issues. |
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| The science of human population. |
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| The mixing of cultures, ideas, and peoples that has changed the American nation. The United States with its history of immigration has often been called a ________. |
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| A valuable tool for understanding demographic changes. The Constitution requires that the government conduct an “actual enumeration” of the population every 10 years. |
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| The emergence of a non-Caucasian majority, as compared with a white, generally Anglo-Saxon majority. |
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| An overall set of values widely shared within a society. |
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| The process of reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every 10 years on the basis of the results of the census. |
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| According to Richard Dawson, “the process through which an individual acquires his [or her] particular political orientations – his [or her] knowledge, feelings, and evaluations regarding his [or her] political word.” |
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| A relatively small proportion of people who are chosen in a survey so as to be representative of the whole. |
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| The key technique employed by sophisticated survey researchers, which operates on the principle that everyone shone have an equal probability of being selected for the sample. |
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| The level of confidence in the findings of a public opinion poll. The more people interviewed, the more confident one can be of the results. |
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| A technique used by pollsters to place telephone calls randomly to both listed and unlisted numbers when conducting a survey. |
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| Public opinion surveys use by major media pollsters to predict electoral winners with speed and precision. |
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| A coherent set of beliefs about politics, public policy, and public purpose. It helps give meaning to political events, personalities, and policies (i.e. liberalism & conservatism). |
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| A political ideology whose advocates prefer a government active in dealing with human needs, support individual rights and liberties, and giver higher priority to social needs than to military needs. |
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| A term that refers to the regular pattern by which women are more likely to support Democratic candidates. Women tend to be significantly less conservative than men and are more likely to support spending on social services and to oppose higher levels of military spending. |
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| All the activities used by citizens to influence the selection of the political leaders or the policies they pursue. The more common, but not only, means of political participation in a democracy is voting. Other means include protest and civil disobedience. |
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| A form of political participation designed to achieve policy change through dramatic and unconventional tactics. |
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| A form of political participation that reflects a conscious decision to break a law believed to be immoral and to suffer the consequences. |
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