Chapter 7: Public Opinion

People who have a disproportionate amount of some valued resource

Polls based on interviews conducted on Election Day with randomly selected voters.

Difference in political views between men and women

A standard, model, or pattern regarded as typical

Persons with disproportionate share of political power

A more or less consistent set of beliefs aout what policies government ought to pursue

Process by which background traits influence one's political views.

a sample of subjects that is randomly selected from a group and is therefore assumed to be representative of that group

That portion of the difference between the value of a statistic derived from observations and the value that it is supposed to estimate; attributed to the fact that samples represent only a portion of a population.