POLI 2051 Hogan Exam 2 Question and Answer
[2026] | UPDATED ACTUAL Exam | Complete Exam
Prep
• Civil Disobedience -✓✓ a form of unconventional participation designed ti consciously
break a law thought to be unjust
• Demography -✓✓ the science of human population
• Exit Polls -✓✓ a poll taken at randomly selected polling places after the citizen has
placed their vote
• Gender Gap -✓✓ a consistent attitudinal pattern where women are more likely than
men to express liberal attitudes and support to democratic candidates
• Melting Pot -✓✓ the mixtures of cultures, ideas, and people in the US
• Minority Majority -✓✓ a reference to the impending status of White, Anglo-Saxon
Americans, currently holding majority status
• Political culture -✓✓ an overall set of values widely shared in a society
• Political ideology -✓✓ a coherent set of values and beliefs about public policy
• Political participation -✓✓ the activities used by citizens to influence political outcomes
• Political socialization -✓✓ the process by which citizens acquire their knowledge,
feelings, and evaluations of the political world
• Protest -✓✓ a form of political participation design to change policy through
unconventional tactics
• Public Opinion -✓✓ the distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and issues
• Random digit dialing -✓✓ phone numbers are dialed at random around the country
• Random sampling -✓✓ a polling technique which is based on the principle that
everyone has an equal probability of being selected to be apart of the sample
• Reapportionment -✓✓ the reallocation of 435 seats in the house of representatives
based on changes of residency and population found in the census
, • Sample -✓✓ a small portion of the population chosen as representative of the whole
population
• Sampling Error -✓✓ the level of confidence involved in a sample result- the level is
dependent on the size of the sample
• Beats -✓✓ specific locations where news is frequently found
• Broadcast media -✓✓ one of the kinds of media, including tv and radio
• Chains -✓✓ media conglomerates that control a large percentage of daily newspaper
circulation and some tv and radio stations as well
• High-tech politics -✓✓ Politics where technology has shaped political behavior and the
political agenda
• Investigative journalism -✓✓ the use of detective-like report methods to unearth
scandals
• Mass media -✓✓ media which reaches and influences both elites and the masses.
• Media event -✓✓ an event staged primarily for the purpose of being covered.
• Narrowcasting -✓✓ strategy of some broadcast channels that appeal to a narrow,
rather than a broad, audience.
• Policy agenda -✓✓ the list of subjects or problems to which government officials and
people outside of government closely associated with those officials are paying some
serious attention at any given time.
• Policy entrepreneurs -✓✓ political activists who invest their political capital in an issue.
• Press conferences -✓✓ presidential meetings with the press.
• Print media -✓✓ one of two kinds of media, includes newspapers and magazines.
• Sound bites -✓✓ a portion of a speech aired on TV of fifteen seconds or less.
• Talking head -✓✓ a shot of a person's face talking directly into the camera.
• Trial balloons -✓✓ information leaked to the media to see what the political reaction
will be.
[2026] | UPDATED ACTUAL Exam | Complete Exam
Prep
• Civil Disobedience -✓✓ a form of unconventional participation designed ti consciously
break a law thought to be unjust
• Demography -✓✓ the science of human population
• Exit Polls -✓✓ a poll taken at randomly selected polling places after the citizen has
placed their vote
• Gender Gap -✓✓ a consistent attitudinal pattern where women are more likely than
men to express liberal attitudes and support to democratic candidates
• Melting Pot -✓✓ the mixtures of cultures, ideas, and people in the US
• Minority Majority -✓✓ a reference to the impending status of White, Anglo-Saxon
Americans, currently holding majority status
• Political culture -✓✓ an overall set of values widely shared in a society
• Political ideology -✓✓ a coherent set of values and beliefs about public policy
• Political participation -✓✓ the activities used by citizens to influence political outcomes
• Political socialization -✓✓ the process by which citizens acquire their knowledge,
feelings, and evaluations of the political world
• Protest -✓✓ a form of political participation design to change policy through
unconventional tactics
• Public Opinion -✓✓ the distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and issues
• Random digit dialing -✓✓ phone numbers are dialed at random around the country
• Random sampling -✓✓ a polling technique which is based on the principle that
everyone has an equal probability of being selected to be apart of the sample
• Reapportionment -✓✓ the reallocation of 435 seats in the house of representatives
based on changes of residency and population found in the census
, • Sample -✓✓ a small portion of the population chosen as representative of the whole
population
• Sampling Error -✓✓ the level of confidence involved in a sample result- the level is
dependent on the size of the sample
• Beats -✓✓ specific locations where news is frequently found
• Broadcast media -✓✓ one of the kinds of media, including tv and radio
• Chains -✓✓ media conglomerates that control a large percentage of daily newspaper
circulation and some tv and radio stations as well
• High-tech politics -✓✓ Politics where technology has shaped political behavior and the
political agenda
• Investigative journalism -✓✓ the use of detective-like report methods to unearth
scandals
• Mass media -✓✓ media which reaches and influences both elites and the masses.
• Media event -✓✓ an event staged primarily for the purpose of being covered.
• Narrowcasting -✓✓ strategy of some broadcast channels that appeal to a narrow,
rather than a broad, audience.
• Policy agenda -✓✓ the list of subjects or problems to which government officials and
people outside of government closely associated with those officials are paying some
serious attention at any given time.
• Policy entrepreneurs -✓✓ political activists who invest their political capital in an issue.
• Press conferences -✓✓ presidential meetings with the press.
• Print media -✓✓ one of two kinds of media, includes newspapers and magazines.
• Sound bites -✓✓ a portion of a speech aired on TV of fifteen seconds or less.
• Talking head -✓✓ a shot of a person's face talking directly into the camera.
• Trial balloons -✓✓ information leaked to the media to see what the political reaction
will be.
