R POS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Gender Equality
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Ideology- how someone makes sense of it; based on their beliefs and values. In the past americans were less ideological than people in other countries. Difference between liberals and conservatives 50 years ago wasn"t as great. Liberals and conservatives are both more radical today. Larger number of americans have been shaped by elites to be more ideological: taxes (lowering-conservative; raising-liberal) a. Less government: government regulation (more-liberal; less-conservative, more government, military spending (more-conservative; less-liberal, more government, abortion (the right-liberal; no right-conservative, equal, gun control (more regulations-liberals; less regulations-conservative, more government, marijuana (illegal-conservative; legal-liberal) a. Part 1- short answer 36/100 points chapters: 4, 5, 15, & 17 key terms democratic debate textbook. Part 2- essay 64/100 points know the difference between federalism and anti-federalism. Obama got the highest percentage of votes from the younger age group. Republicans got the highest percentage of votes from the older age group. Reagan got the highest percentage of votes from the younger age group.