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a strong central government that sets policies to promote equality |
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they are more interested in results than ideology and judge presidents by results. |
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Major television networks have decreased the number of foreign bureaus across the globe.. |
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drowning out election issues with a steady flood of poll results |
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the sample was drawn from telephone books and motor vehicle records. |
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groups with political clout |
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a majority of Americans believe that press criticism of political leaders does more harm than good. |
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it makes politicians more concerned with following than leading |
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the U.S. is not in the midst of a major political culture war, but rather is surrounding by a culture war between a small group of liberal and conservative elites. |
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the president was rarely directly questioned by the media |
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the Sunbelt continued to experience rapid population growth |
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influence the criteria by which the public evaluates political leaders |
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the undercount of minority groups |
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The fact that people with higher incomes are more likely to donate money to campaigns and to participate in the political process. |
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represented a crackdown on illegal aliens required that employers document the citizenship or legitimate immigrant status of workers or pay stiff fines. |
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people are more likely to recognize slogans from TV commercials than famous political figures. |
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mixture of liberal and conservative |
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has brought television into a new era of bringing the news to people and political leaders as it happens |
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the discomforting lack of public knowledge about politics |
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polls are subject to very wide margins of error, yet are treated as accurate measurements of public opinion. |
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government was not the answer to the nation's problems, government was the problem. |
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the minimal effects hypothesis |
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American media is totally dependant on advertising revenues to keep business going. |
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required employers to document the citizenship of their employees |
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they believe we should guard carefully the rights of defendants in criminal cases |
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the process through which an individual acquires his or her particular political orientations. |
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liberals are more likely to favor military intervention around the globe; conservatives are less willing to commit troops to action. |
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encourages government to take on more and more tasks. |
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an overall set of values widely shared within a society |
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printed in Philadelphia in 1783 |
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on election day, by interviewing voters as they leave the polling place. |
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most will vote in an election, but only a minority of people do more than that politically. |
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contacting government officials and giving money to candidates increased. |
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reform the soundbite process, allowing candidates a full 30 seconds of uninterrupted coverage. |
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Social Security is among the government's least expensive public policies. |
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more concern and energy devoted to the president's media appearances than in any other administration, |
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stable pattern where women tend to be more likely than men to vote democratic |
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political participation increases with age |
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consciously breaking a city's law by purposely blocking entrance to a legally operating abortion clinic. |
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how close a sample estimate is to the real population value. |
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Trust in government has been decreasing since the mid-twentieth century |
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most people are contacted by the random digit dialing method |
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politics in which the behavior of citizens and policymakers is shaped by technology |
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hispanics are primarily concentrated in the rural areas |
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mistakes in early reporting of vote results in some counties the incompetence of news anchorpersons |
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voting in presidential elections |
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Americans consistently choose the ideological label of conservative over liberal. |
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short clips of a political speech lasting fifteen seconds or less. |
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the vast majority of students have found that reporting in the news media is not systematically biased toward one ideology or party. |
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it has drained public support for policies that address the problems of poverty and racial equality. |
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As people become more socialized with age, their political orientations grow weaker. |
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the Vietnam War and Watergate |
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