PSC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Concept Learning, Totalitarianism, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
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Political behavior- attempt to quantify and explain the influences that define a person"s political views, ideology, and levels of political participation. Must be 18 years old or older. You must satisfy residency requirements of the state that you reside. The factors of low turnout include poorly informed about politics, regarding candidates, issues, etc. They distrust the government and dissatisfied with politics, and feeling that they have less influence in government. Single member district: is a direct method of selecting representatives. States are divided into representative districts producing one winner who is a majority vote winner, and getting at least 50% of votes. If no one is a majority winner, there is a run-off election and the with most votes will win. Proportional representation: is an indirect method of selecting representatives. From each district, there are multiple winners in accordance to the proportion of the votes for each party. For example, for a district with 10 representatives with 3 political parties.
