POLS 155 Lecture 11: Chapter 11 and 12
4 Jul 2018
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Chapter 11 and 12
In this journal I will be talking about the roles of public opinion, key factors that
influence our individual and collective political opinions. The different techniques used to gauge
public opinion. I will also be talking about the tension between the party base and the general
electorate regarding their influence on issue position. The outline of the evolution of party in the
U.s
The public opinion is the collective attitudes and beliefs of individuals on one or more
issues compared to the opinion polls are the scientific effort to estimate what an entire group
thinks about an issue by asking a smaller sample of the group for its opinion. The reason why
public opinion matter is because the government legitimacy rest on the that the government
exists to serve the interest of its citizens. The public opinion maters because politicians act as
though they believe the public is keeping tabs on them. The ideal democratic citizen a virtuous
citizen concerned for the common good. Recognizes that democracy carries obligations as well
as rights. Informed about politics and current events. The apolitical self-interested citizen which
is inattentive and ill informed. Easily manipulated, politically intolerant, unlikely to participate.
Citizens values are the political knowledge and interest, the idea democratic citizen understands
how government works, who the main are, and what major principles underlie the operation of
the political system. Tolerance a key democratic value, the participation is also important
because the criticism do not participate enough. Something that influences our opinion about
politics, political socialization which is the process by which we learn our political orientation
and allegiances. Patriotism is a strong emotional attachment to one’s political community. The
differences in public opinion race, gender, partisanship and ideology and economic self-interest.
Something else that influences the public opinion s education, religion and geographic region.
Measuring and tracking public opinion is the learning about public opinion without sample and
sample bias. The development of modern public opinion poll straw polls. The science of opinion
polling today is the science of opinion polling today. Two challenges of opinion polling today
are getting good sample, and asking questions that yields valid results.
A political party is a group of citizens united by ideology and seeking control of
government in order to promote their ideas and policies. The roles of parties in a democracy are
three of them which are political linkage, unification of a fragmented government and a voice for
the opposition. Parties in the democracy have three components of a party in the American
government. The first one would be the party organization which is the official structure that
conducts the political business of parties. The second component would be party-in-government,
which is where the members of the party who have been elected to serve in the government. The
third component would be the party-in-the-electorate which is the ordinary citizens who identify
with the party. The responsible party model of each party represents a coherent set of programs
to voters, consistent with its ideology and clearly different from those of the other party, with
candidates pledging to support and implement their party programs elected. Both voters and
politic leaders provide accountability by making sure that representatives follow the platform.
The parties are standing for party ideology, party membership and policy differences. Party
platform is a list of policy positions the party endorses and pledges its elected officials enact. The
forces to drawing the parties apart and pushing together toward the pull factor toward extremism.
The party activist, party faithful, rank and file members. The history of parties in America
originally pro strong federal government sate rights.
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Document Summary
In this journal i will be talking about the roles of public opinion, key factors that influence our individual and collective political opinions. The different techniques used to gauge public opinion. I will also be talking about the tension between the party base and the general electorate regarding their influence on issue position. The outline of the evolution of party in the. The reason why public opinion matter is because the government legitimacy rest on the that the government exists to serve the interest of its citizens. The public opinion maters because politicians act as though they believe the public is keeping tabs on them. The ideal democratic citizen a virtuous citizen concerned for the common good. Recognizes that democracy carries obligations as well as rights. The apolitical self-interested citizen which is inattentive and ill informed.
