Means of Communication to a Large Audience

Unit IV Study Guide

1. Means of communication to a large audience

2. Polls that sought to ask the same question to a large number of people

3. Private organizations whose members share certain views and work to shape the making and the content of public policy

4. Snappy reports that can be aired in 30 to 45 seconds

5. Those events and issues that concern the people at large

6. A representative slice of the total universe

7. A sample deliberately constructed to reflect several of the major characteristics of a given universe

8. Instructions or commands a constituency gives to its elected officials

9. The societal problems that the nation’s political leaders and the general public agree need government attention

10.Group with whom one regularly associates

11.A probability sample; sample that is randomly chosen

12.Those attitudes held by a significant number of people on matters of government and politics

13.Device that attempts to collect information by asking people questions

14.Means of communication; it transmits some kind of information

15.A person who has an unusually strong influence on the views of others

16.A type of interest group that represents business interests is 17.Which interest group is an organization devoted to the interests of all the people?

18.The technique of persuasion aimed at influencing individual or group behaviors is known as

19.A political action committee devoted to one issue

20.An organization of those who share the same type of job or who work in the same industry 21.The means by which group pressures are brought to bear on all aspects of the policy-making process

22.Of or from the common people, the average voters

23.______includes all of the goals that a government pursues in the many areas of human affairs in which it is involved.

24.Why is your opinion about a rock group not a public opinion? Give at least three examples of topics on which a group may have a public opinion.

25.How do the media influence the public agenda?

26.In what ways are interest groups both similar to and different from political parties?

27.Describe three types of interest groups and list one example of each.

28.What are the goals of a propagandist?

29.Explain how a straw vote differs from a scientific poll.

30.Explain how interest groups can be good for the American political system and explain how they can be bad.