POS-4206 Study Guide - Final Guide: The American Voter, Research Question, Fundamental Attribution Error
29 Dec 2017
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Pos4206 final study guide: voting and party, cottam et al ch. Levels of conceptualization (classifications of people based on their primary attitudes used to express likes and dislikes about the parties and candidates) Ideologue: a political sophisticate; this person would be politically aware, could understand and process political information consistently, and would make political choices suitable for their personal, group, and value-based interests. 2. 5% of people: near-ideologues: these people claimed to know the differences between liberal and conservative principles, but were less confident about, and less able to articulate, those principles. 24% of people: absence of issue content: knowing nothing about political issues and approached politics solely in terms of party membership or candidate appeals when they have anything resembling a political opinion; few of these people voted. This study demonstrated the americans are not political philosophers and that a deep understanding of politics and democracy was not the foundation of their decisions on how to vote.
