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| 276929817 | political culture | a coherent way of thinking about how politics and government ought to be carried out | |
| 276929818 | civic duty | a belief that one has an obligation to participate in civic and political affairs | |
| 276929819 | civic competence | a belief that one can affect government policies | |
| 276929820 | class consciousness | a belief that you are a member of an economic group whose interests are opposed to people on other such groups | |
| 276929821 | orthodox | a belief that mortality and religion ought to be of decisive importance | |
| 276929822 | progressive | a belief that personal freedom and solving social problems are more important than religion | |
| 276929823 | political efficacy | a belief that you can take part in politics or that the government will respond to citizenry | |
| 276929824 | internal efficacy | the ability to understand and take part in politics | |
| 276929825 | external efficacy | the willingness of the state to respond to the citizenry | |
| 276929826 | public opinion | how people think or feel about particular things | |
| 276929827 | poll | a survey of public opinion | |
| 276929828 | random sample | method of selecting from a population in which each person has an equal probability of being selected | |
| 276929829 | sampling error | the difference between the results of random samples taken at the same time | |
| 276929830 | exit polls | polls based on interviews conducted on election day with randomly selected voters | |
| 276929831 | political socialization | process by which background traits influence one's political views | |
| 276929832 | elite | people who have a disproportionate amount of some valued resource | |
| 276929833 | gender gap | difference in political views between men and women | |
| 276929834 | political ideology | a more or less consistent set of beliefs about what policies government ought to pursue | |
| 276929835 | political elites | persons with a disproportionate share of political power | |
| 276929836 | norm | a standard of right or proper conduct | |
| 276929837 | voting-age population | citizens who are able to vote after reaching the minimum age requirement | |
| 276929838 | registered voters | people who are registered to vote | |
| 276929839 | literacy tests | a requirement that citizens pass a literacy test in order to register to vote | |
| 276929840 | poll tax | a requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote | |
| 276929841 | grandfather clause | a clause in registration laws allowing who do not meet the registration requirements to vote if there ancestors had voted before 1867 | |
| 276929842 | white primary | the practice of keeping blacks from voting in southern states primaries through the use of registration requirements and intimidation | |
| 276929843 | Australian ballot | a government printed ballot of uniform dimensions to be cast in secret that many states adopted around 1890 to reduce voting fraud associated with party printed ballots cast in public | |
| 276929844 | activists | people who tend to participate in all forms of politics |
