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Political Ideology To be an effective citizen and voter, people need to be informed about Current Issues and how political groups represent those issues.

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1 Political Ideology To be an effective citizen and voter, people need to be informed about Current Issues and how political groups represent those issues.

2 Political Ideology Ideology: a set of basic beliefs about life, culture, government, and society. Political Ideology: An individual’s or group’s set of beliefs about governmental or political structures and functions.

3 Organization of Political Representation
In a representative Democracy, we vote for people to represent us in government and to vote the way we would if we had the opportunity to vote. In order to select people with similar beliefs as ours, the US has developed the following for to help the citizens be an informed voter.

4 Organization of Political Representation
Political Party: a group of people with similar political platforms who organize to nominate candidates for office, win elections, conduct government, and determine public policy. Political Platform: the set of planks that a politician or citizen stands on. Political Planks: the individual issues or beliefs of a politician or citizen.

5 Political Spectrum: Types of Platforms
Conservative: social control, economic freedom Liberal: social freedom, economic control Moderate: (Centrist) moderate control of social and economic

6 Political Spectrum: Types of Platforms
Radical: (Progressives) wants extreme change toward socialism Libertarian: social freedom, economic freedom Authoritarian: (Populist) social control, economic control toward communism

7 Political Spectrum: Types of Platforms

8 Political Socialization
How an individual acquires their sense of political identity. Four agents of political socialization

9 Political Socialization
Home and family observe and copy parents tend to follow same ideology pattern information is filtered based on ideology of parents

10 Political Socialization
School teach citizenship and societal values teach democratic principles usually first knowledge of how system works

11 Political Socialization
Peers share similar ideas reinforce attitudes desire for acceptance may change family ideas

12 Political Socialization
Media greatest source of information generates interest in issue that may not have been of concern

13 Political Socialization
Public Opinion - The combination of many individuals' ideas on the government and on political issues.

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