AP GOVT: Chapter 6: public opinion and political actions

1.) late 19th century, northwestern Europeans constituted the 1st wave of immigration2.

) late 19th and early 20th centuries, southern and eastern Europeans made up the 2nd wave, passed through Ellis Island 3.) recent decades--> 3rd wave, consisted of hispanics and asians. 1980's second largest number of immigrations

-it requires that employers document citizenship of their employers-things to stop illegal immigration from mix and central latin america

immigration: after census, house of reps. are reallocated to the states on the basis of population changesregional shifts: population growth has been coveted in west and southaging population: florida population grows from elderly-social security

family: children views are usually after their parents mass media: "new parent"--> TV is main source of infoschools: try to raise children committed to the basis values of the system. Learned about virtues of capitalism and democracy and will learn positive features of system and be supportive citizens

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political participation--> older the person the more political participation2. public opinion--> learning to vote, evaluate political events, to pick a political party

random sampling

1. makes politicians more concerned with following than leading 2. weaken democracy by distressing the election process 3.

election day exit polls-->used by major media pollsters to predict electoral winners with speed and precision

the American political system works as well as it does given the discomforting lack of public knowledge about politics

has been the way it has drained public support for polices that address the problems of poverty and racial inequality

general beliefs: wide scope of govt. with polices that promote equality typical demographic characteristics: under 30, women, minorities(race, religion)

general beliefs: typical demographic characteristics: over 30, white, men

-determined more by religiosity-that is the degree to which religion is important in one's life-than by religious denomination

-people could connect their opinions and beliefs with broad policy positions taken by parties or candidates -12%

-thought of politics mainly in terms of the group they liked or disliked-42%

-their handle on positives was limited to whether the times seemed good or bad to them-24%

-voted routinely for a party or judged the candidate sole by their personalities -22%

it has become too wide ranging

they tend to be lower class so they don't participate that much

over 120 million

-people are doing other things other than watching the news -so when it comes to voting time they don't know who to vote for so they just don't vote and that affects democracy