Chap7

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passionates

Public members highly engaged with the politics/government
scorekeepers

Public members moderately aware and in politics/government
uninvolveds
- Public members who rarely attend to politics/government, aside from
- voting
voter turnout

the percentage of eligible citizens who actually vote
political voice
paradox voting
social capital

relations building closer ties of trust and civic engagement
political mobilization

efforts to encourage people to engage in the public sphere
issue advocacy

Organized effort to advance a proposed public policy change.
cycles of democratic participation

every 60 years regular surges in public engagement occur
public referedum
- placing policy issues directly on a state
- or local ballot.
circle of nonparticipation

Resistance by political parties to mobilizing disengaged Americans to vote.
digital divide

The gap between those who do and don’t have access to the internet
din

The sheer volume and variety of available information are mind-boggling
bandwagon effect

if many people are doing something, mostly others are likely to do it as well.
libertarian paternalism

encourages individual choice and public officials decide what behaviors to promote
anchoring

Behavioral bias leading people to believe only on one piece of information.
Civic voluntarism

citizens participate in public life without any government incentives

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Chap7

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Chap7

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2014-10-31T17:26:24Z

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