Exam 5: Public Opinion: How Are Americans Voices Measured, and Do They Matter

The "direction" of public opinion in deciding whether or not the Ferguson tragedy was racially motivated divided along ethnic and racial lines.

Philip E. Converse found that ______.

A person's beliefs about political goals, public policies, and acts that shape political choices is known as ______.

Which of the following best describes a term referring to the lack of stable and coherent opinions on political issues and candidates?

In August of 2015, Michael Brown was killed by police officers in what city?

Information is a central part of representative government because ______.

Inherent in the minimalist critique is the idea that ______.

How we define ourselves in terms of race, gender, or ethnicity can form clear, consistent, and persistent patterns of similarity and division in American public opinion.

One of the most interesting and important debates about American public opinion is ______.

A person's beliefs about political goals, public policies, and acts that shape political choices is their political socialization.

American public opinion is frozen in time due to the tools with which it is measured and the technologies through which it is expressed.

In Staten Island, New York, Eric Garner was killed when ______.

Which political party, based on the modern usage of the term, refers to support for more robust governmental action to ensure equality of opportunity, particularly in regulation of the economy as well as environmental regulation?

Individual political opinions are considered set in stone at an early age.

Based on data collected by the Pew Research Center following Michael Brown's death, what percentage of African Americans felt that his death raised important issues about race?

What was a key concept in Walter Lippmann's research?

For the majority of questions of public policy with which elected officials will have to contend, elections are too ______ to reveal useful information.

Which political party, based on the modern usage of the term, refers to support for an especially strong role for the government in economic matters, including advocating for governmental control over entire sectors of the economy, such as health care?

The small number of Americans who have well-informed and well-reasoned opinions is known as ______.

This chapter focused on American public opinion in which of the following specific areas?