political beliefs and behaviors

Life, Liberty, and Property

• individual rights

• human rights

• natural rights

• lockesian truth

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

• capitalism

• communism

• traditional

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

• political culture

• political iedology

• social capital

• socialization

A political orientation that favors a more assertive role in the redistribution of economic resources, but emphasizes individual freedom on a range of social issues.

Political opinions that exist but have not been fully expressed. 

• latency

• socialization

• intensity

• salience

A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform. 

• primary party

• convention party

• caucus

• town hall party

A belief that you can take part in politics or that government will respond to the citizenry.

• political tolerance

• progressive era

• form beliefs

• polical efficacy

What is the most common question that people ask before voting on a political issue?

• what's in it for me ?

• which ways are the polls going?

• why is everyone doing it?

• how long will this take?