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| Political Culture | Shared beliefs about how a government should operate |
| Political ideology | a patterned way of thinking about the specific policies a government shoudl follow |
| Political socialization | the process by which people acquire their political beliefs |
| Cross-cutting cleavages | divisions of a person's demographics that oppose each other |
| Reinforcing Cleavages | divisions ina person's demographics that support each other |
| Internal efficacy | the knowledge of how someone can influence their government |
| External efficacy | the belief people have that they will actually be able to influence the government |
| The Gender Gap | difference betwee men and women that support a particular political candidate |
| Progressive camp | those that believe as time moves on we must re-examine our standards of morality etc |
| Orthodox camp | those who believe morality is set from god and does not change or need to be re-examined |
| Motor Voter Legislation | federal legislation that required all state to allow people to register to vote at DMV |
| VRA of 1965 | banned literacy tests and allowed federal examiners to monitor state elections where there had been a history of discrimination |
| 15th amendment | allowed blacks and former slaves to vote |
| 19th amendment | allowed women to vote |
| 26th amendment | allowed 18 to 21 year olds to vote |
| Margin of error | estimate of the accuracy of a poll, it is based on the size of the sample |
| Compulsory voting | laws in some countries that require people to vote |
| Liberalism | political ideology that believes in a government that activelt regulates the economy and protecting civil liberties |
| Conservatism | political ideology that believes in provding a free market economy and protecting traditional values |
| Libertarianism | the political ideology that believes in small government in every aspect of both economic and social issues. |
