APGOPO - Political Beliefs and Behaviors

The widely shared beliefs, values, and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another. 

• Political Culture
• Social Capital
• Political Ideology
• Socialization

Life, Liberty, and Property

• Individual Rights
• Human Rights
• Natural Rights
• Lockesian Truths

An economic system characterized by private property, competitive markets, economic incentives, and limited government involvement in the production, distribution, and pricing of goods and services. 

• Socialism
• Communism
• Capitalism
• Traditional

The right to vote

• Responsibility
• Suffrage
• Freedom
• Polling

Domination of an industry by a single company that fixes prices and discourages competition; also, the company that dominates the industry by these means. 

• Monopoly
• Anti-Trust
• Corporation
• Capitalism

A belief that power ultimately resides with the people

• majority rule
• popular sovereignty
• consent of the governed
• power to the people

An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on minimal government, promoting a free market economy, a noninterventionist foreign policy, and an absence of regulation in moral, economic, and social life. 

• Liberalism
• Conservatism
• Environmental
• Libertarianism

The distribution of individual preferences or evaluations of a given issue, candidate, or institution within a specific population. 

• Sample
• Polling
• Public Opinion
• Majority Rule

Political opinions that exist but have not been fully expressed. 

• Latency
• Intensity
• Socialization
• Salience

Election in which voters elect officeholders.

• Primary Election
• Presidential Election
• General Election
• Midterm Election