Political Socialization

What is political socialization?

• All the people who might be interest group members because they share the same common interest.
• The process through which an individual acquires his/her particular orientations - his/her knowledge, feelings, and evaluations regarding his/her political world.
• How similar cases have been decided in the past.
• The distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and policy issues.

Most of us gain our basic attitudes that shape our political opinions from

• the media
• church
• friends
• family

Rank in order of importance of socialization 

• Family, school, friends, media
• School, family, friends, media
• Friends, family, media, school
• Media, friends, family, school

Which class of people has the highest percentage of voter turnout?

• Middle
• Lower
• Upper
• upper-middle

Among white voters, a large proportion of highly religious people are

• Independent
• Democrat
• Libertarian
• Republican

White Protestants are MOST likely to vote

• Independent
• Republican
• Democrat
• Libertarian

No matter how religious they are, ________ are likely to identify themselves as Democrats.

• White Americans
• Asian Americans
• African Americans
• Latino Americans

The largest proportion of nonreligious Americans are

• Democrat
• Republican
• Independent
• Libertarian

Combination of laws, regulations, and rules that are designed to serve the public

• policy agenda
• political agenda
• public policy
• implementation

The process of forming the list of matters that policymakers intend to address 

• agenda setting 
• policy formulation 
• fiscal year 
• policy adoption