Rading Reveiw #1 questions

1. The element the book identifies with political culture are constitutional, demographic, and cultural. The difference between a political culture and a political ideology are that political culture is a way of thinking and ideology is a set of beliefs.
2. Equality of opportunity is giving people an equal chance to succeed and equality of results is making sure everyone gets the same results.
4. There is cultural conflict because of some major issues like abortion, gay rights, drug use, and school prayer. There are two cultural classes in the US: the orthodox and the progressive. Orthodox are people that believe that morality is very important and that moral rules derive from the command of God. Progressive side are people who think personal freedom is as important as tradition. Orthodox includes Protestants and Christians and Progressive includes Episcopalians and Unitarians and people with no strong religious beliefs. Some issues are easy to resolve and some are not.
5. Internal efficacy is the ability to understand and take part in politics and external efficacy is the willingness of the state to respond to the citizens.
6. They believed that the public should not have a say because they are pursued to easily. They have checks and balances and they have different branches.
7. You don't get everyone's opinion, your technique could be bad, and it could be skewed.
8. Four ares that affect political attitudes are family, religion, gender, and schooling. Family effects because what you are brought up on determines how you think, religion effects because your thoughts will be skewed because of it, gender because your gender defines who you are, and schooling because different schooling levels you know different things.
9. Three factors that divide political beliefs are social class, region, and race. Your race effects because different races vote different ways, social class because you would vote for someone who helps your social class, and region because based on where you live you vote differently.
 10. Information and peers. As a politician you have more access to information and your peers would be other politicians and while ours are regular people.
11. They case raise and frame political issues and they state the norm by which issues should be settled. They don't define economic problems and they are or are not high interest rates.
12. It is not an accurate description of the problem, it's an incorrect explanation of the problem, and it proposes a remedy that probable won't work.
13. The moter voter law.
14. Jim Crow laws. They used literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clause, and white primary. These were all gradually changes so that there was no discrimination in them and that so everyone could vote.
15. There has been a decrease in voter turnout and different forms of activism have arrived.
16. Decline of popular interest in elections and a weakening of the competitiveness between the two major parties, and because of distrust.
17. For age older people tend to vote more than younger people, for schooling the more educated tend to vote more, and for race whites tend to vote more.