Political Science 1010
Introduction to Political Science
Second Exam Review


Political Ideologies

Classic Liberalism - Adam Smith Classic Conservatism - Edmund Burke Modern Liberalism - T.H. Green Modern Conservatism - Milton Friedman Marxist Socialism - Karl Marx Democratic Socialism - Eduard Bernstein Communism (Marxist Leninism) - V.I. Lenin Imperialism Maoism Titoism	Nationalism Fascism - Benito Mussolini Nazism - Adolf Hitler Neoconservatism Libertarianism Feminism Environmentalism
"End of Ideology" - Daniel Bell

Dimensions of ideology

• Economic (Left/Right)
• Social (Authoritarian/Libertarian)
• Typology based on these dimensions
  • Liberal
  • Conservative
  • Libertarian
  • Populist/Communitarian

Political Culture

• Almond and Verba's Civic Culture
  • Participant
  • Subject
  • Parochial
• Political efficacy, competence and cynicism
• Political subcultures
• Political socialization
  • Agents of socialization

Public Opinion

• Determinants of Public Opinion
  -You should know how the following tend to effect public opinion
  • Class
  • Education
  • Region
  • Age
    • life cycle effect
    • generation effect
  • Gender
  • Ethnicity
• Public Opinion Polling
  • Sampling
  • Margin of error
• Almond's Three Publics
  • general public
  • attentive publics
  • opinion elites

Political Commuication and the Media

• Two-step flow of commuication
• Media bias
• Media effects
  • cognitive dissonance
  • exposure
  • acceptance
• Government regulation

Key terms you should know:

anticlericalism attentive public center-periphery tensions communism conservatism cross-pressured elite media fascism gender gap ideology imperialism intensity liberalism

libertarianism life cycle mainstream maoism mass media modern liberalism neoconservatism oligopoly opinion leaders parochial culture participatory culture political competence political culture

political efficacy political generations public opinion rally event salience sample social class socialization subculture subject culture Sullivan Rule titoism wire service