Chapter 7: Public Opinion



Chapter 7: Public Opinion

Study Guide

• Why does public policy often differ from public opinion

• Monetary Control Act

• Political Socialization (family, Religion, gender gap

• Gender Gap and gun control

• Voting behavior of women since the 1960s

• Red diaper babies

• College education and voting behavior

• Pattern of public-opinion cleavages (social class, race and ethnicity and region) example. Southern voters have become less attached to which party?

• What are the cleavages in public opinion

• Know the cleavages of public opinion

• V.O. Keys

• Study table 7.4 (similarities and differences between blacks and whites)

• Issue that divides blacks and whites

• Know public opinion of Asian-Americans and Latino American

• Political Ideology (definition)

• Americans ideological thinking

• Democrat and Republican party before and after “New Deal”

• Difference in Conservative and liberals in their views on the issues (many questions on this)

• Know differences between pure liberal, pure conservative, Libertarians, Populists – know what types of issues they would or would not support

• Political activism

• Political elites

It is very important that you can tell which issues the various political groups would support or not support

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