PLSC 2003 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, Federal Election Campaign Act, Campaigns And Elections
29 Aug 2016
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More knowledge usually equals more trust: how we trust in our government is most important to public opinion. Values (or beliefs) form a person"s opinion about politics and policy: values/beliefs are shaped by: Spend the most time with them, care the most about their opinions and well being. Your monetary class greatly affects your beliefs. How the portray government is mostly negative/shocking don"t really promote positive things government. Polls and surveys use samples of the population. Pollsters are interested in direction and strength (saliency) of public"s opinion and what shaped it and level of knowledge on the topic. Want it to accurately represented (randomly sampled) everyone has a chance to be in the sample/you are not choosing certain people. Salience how strongly someone feels about the new law/leader. Sample error, sample size are important to know so we can judge how good poll is. Most important problem in 2015: economy 43% (most important)
