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Public Opinion (Political Participation (Mobilization (The New…

- - - - Participation within the Political System
      - Discussing Politics, Yard Signs, That Casual Stuff
      - Goal of democratic institutions is to channel citizen activity into conventional forms of participation
        
        Safer for government
    - - Participation that is seen as peculiar
      - Revolution, Boycott, That Wild Stuff
      - Long History of this tradition in the US
        
        No guarentee
  - - - The belief that your actions have a difference
      - Distrust of government
        
        unconventional
  - - - Rational to be uninformed
      - Info costly to obtain
        
        Not valuable because low probability to affect outcome
    - - Doing participation is costly
  - - - Mobilization increases participation in both conventional and unconventional
    - - Elites
        
        Invite people in
      - Stake in outcome
        
        "I got 20 dollars in this"
      - Strongly prefer one outcome over another
        
        nevertrump movement
    - - Direct vs Indirect Mobilization
        
        Inviting vs people hearing about it
      - Targeting
        
        Appealing to a certain demographic
      - Timing
        
        Issue salience #
        
        Strike while issue is hot
        
        Vote coming up
    - - Key role of tech
        
        Social media, text, etc.
      - Grass Roots
        
        Less top down
      - Spur people to do things
        
        Voter registration, protests, contacting elected officials, etc.
      - Tea Party
        
        Would scream questions at people at Town Hall Meetings
  - - - Part of democracy
        
        Is Participation good for democracy
        
        Freedom
        
        Free not to participate
        
        Equality
        
        People have more order :warning:
        
        Order
        
        Stability
      - If yes
        
        How do you
        
        Reduce costs
        
        Increase efficacy
        
        Increase mobilization
- - - - Elected officials do exactly what public opinion says
    - - Elected officials go by their best judgement until public opinion tells them they are doing trash
  - - - How Important is issue to the public
    - - How likely is Public Opinion to change
    - - For the topic or against?
      - Intensity
        
        How strong public feels for/against the issue
  - - - Individual
        
        Events that personally affected you
        
        Getting college paid by government grants
      - Generation Specific Events
        
        Events affecting a generation (millennial, baby boomers, etc.)
        
        Vietnam War
      - Major Event
        
        Especially unexpected or unusual events
        
        Effective especially if people don't have strongly held opinions
    - - Individual's political opinion shaped by information, other people and the surrounding culture
        
        Peers, Family, Etc.
        
        Persistence
        
        What is learned first can shape the way that people think and learn about politics later
        
        Primacy
        
        Learned first is learned best
        
        Stuff you were taught as a kid
    - - Race, Education, Income, Age, Region, Etc.
        
        Similar Experiences
    - - Political Elite
        
        More likely to listen to a political elite than someone of your caliber
        
        Gets to a point where you only listen to said political elite
  - - - New Political Scientists more optimistic
        
        Latent Opinions
        
        Form opinions on the spot
        
        Heuristics / Cues
        
        Use Shortcuts rather than more complete info
        
        Voting on party line
        
        Issue Public
        
        People only well informed on certain issues
    - - Inconsistence
        
        People have incompatible policy views
        
        Tax cuts is good
        
        Goverment Spending is good
      - Unconnected
        
        One persons opinion all over the ideological spectrum
      - Uninformed
        
        People respond to questions on issues they don't know
        
        People have very little factual information
    - - Increased Polarization
        
        People say moderate; they are all lying those pieces of trash
        
        We know these infidels are lying because how they vote on issues
      - Lower levels of trust with government
- - - - Political Strategy
      - News items
  - - - Range of confidence in the results of the poll
        
        +/- margin of 3%
        
        Majority can be sometimes hard to tell
    - - Confusing wording
      - Ambigious Questions
      - Word Choice
    - - People who said naw to answering representative of a group?
    - - Counter Latent Opinions
      - Do citizens have general opinion on topic
        
        Screening questions
        
        Have you ever thought about this?
    - - Differnce mood with difference interviewer
        
        Race, Gender, Medium, Etc.