Political Participation and Public Opinion

What is the definition of political participation as provided in the chapter?

According to James Madison in Federalist, no. 39, from where must a government derive its powers to be considered a republic?

What major expansion of suffrage in the United States was secured by the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920?

In a 2016 comparison of 35 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, what was the rank of the United States in terms of voter turnout?

Which of the following is cited as a reason for higher voter turnout in some countries compared to the United States?

What is the term for the relationship between age and voting likelihood, where younger voters are less likely to vote, likelihood increases into middle age, and then shows a 'soft' decline in the oldest age categories?

In what year did Black voter turnout percentage first surpass White turnout in a US presidential election?

What is described as one of the biggest institutional limits on political participation in the United States, unlike in countries with automatic registration?

What is the term for the manipulation of the boundaries of voting districts in order to favor one party over another?

Close to what quarter of all money raised in the 2020 US election cycle came from people who gave less than 200 dollars?

What is the term for the idea that individuals form connections that benefit their own interests, which in turn produce communities with norms of reciprocity?

According to a study mentioned in the chapter, what percentage of Americans aged 18-29 reported getting most of their political news from social media between October 2019 and June 2020?

An MIT study found that falsehoods are what percentage more likely to be retweeted on Twitter than the truth?

What is the term for the aggregation of individual views that represent the feelings people hold on an issue at a given point in time?

What is the theory of issue publics?

In a 2020 Harvard University poll, what percentage of Americans surveyed stated that they believe clean air and water are basic rights?

The process by which people assimilate to group values, which influences their opinions on politics, is called what?

What is the most common method of polling, where researchers randomly choose samples from the larger population to ensure everyone has an equal chance of being selected?

What is the term for limitations in response validity due to survey design problems, such as question wording or interviewer bias?

The 'Bradley effect' is a famous example of which type of response bias, where respondents give the answer they think they should give rather than their true opinion?

What reason does the chapter provide for why public opinion is a crucial component of a representative government, referencing the Declaration of Independence?

What law granted citizenship and voting rights to Asian Americans in 1952?

What is political salience, a factor that affects voter turnout?

What is the idea that voters face too many elections and electoral decisions, which can depress participation?

What was the total donation limit in Canada, per person, as of 2021?

The Arab Spring, a major international protest movement of the 2010s, began when a street vendor in which country lit himself on fire as a form of protest?

What type of opinion represents the views not of the broader public, but of business, political, and other cultural elites?

Who are opinion leaders, as described in the chapter?

A typical poll sample of 1,500 people is generally considered to have an acceptable sampling error of approximately what percentage?

What is selection bias in the context of polling?

Since what year have increasingly more eligible female voters in the United States voted than men in every election?

What is the primary way that people ensure their government represents them, according to the text?

What did the Supreme Court reinforce in its Reynolds v. Sims (1964) decision?

What percentage of eligible voters cast a ballot in the 2020 US election?

Which factor did the founding executive director of Data for Progress, Sean McElwee, explain as a reason for lower voting rates among those with lower incomes?

Historically, what types of codified laws in the United States, such as using literacy tests and poll taxes, prohibited Black voters from the ballot box?

According to a Pew Research Center survey of 14 countries, what was the second most common type of political participation, after voting?

What is the term for signing petitions online as a form of protest?

The Umbrella Movement, a pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, adopted its name from what?

In his seminal work Public Opinion (1922), who wrote that 'We can see how indirectly we know the environment in which . . . we live'?

What type of poll sampling involves researchers dividing the population into clusters based on shared characteristics and then randomly selecting people from within those clusters?

What did a study by Cornell University Professor Jonathon Schuldt find regarding question wording effects?

What is the key difference between public opinion's influence on government policy and the government's influence on public opinion described as a 'chicken-and-egg relationship'?

Of the 80 million Americans who did not vote in the 2020 election, what reason did almost 30 percent cite as the top reason for not going to the polls?

What is the definition of self-government as provided in the chapter?

According to the chapter, which two technological advances have marked a significant shift in how people participate in politics?

What is the term for a sample based on convenience rather than probability, such as asking classmates to respond to a survey?

In the context of the 2020 Brexit debate in Britain, which group was most likely to support leaving the EU?

What is the term for when individual characteristics such as the race or gender of the interviewer affect a person’s survey response?

What did political psychologist Steven Kull of WorldPublicOpinion.org explain as a reason for why it is important for Americans to understand global public opinion?