POLITSC 1100- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 57 pages long!)

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLITSC 1100
• Professor: John Wright

Document Summary

Apparently we"re at an all-time low for trusting the government. Spike during 2001 because of 9/11, everybody gathered together like heck yeah i trust them. During times of sustained economic growth, people trust the government more. It goes way downhill at the end of the sixties. The delivery mechanism of the news changed a bunch. He"s worried there"s gonna be a trump-russia thing, like obstruction of justice. Percentage of approval for the way congress handles its job is pretty low. Right after watergate nobody wanted to call themselves a republican. Number of people calling themselves independent is higher than ever. If you have your political party as your anchor, you don"t really need to know much about politics. You know which way you"ll vote every time. The 80th do nothing congress, elected in 1946 was made up of all middle-ground. Without a political party, your source of in uence and information becomes the media.