REVIEW #2 Political Science 3333: Political Behavior March 9, 2014 Source Materials Class lectures and discussions, February

17-March 17. Class readings:Dalton, The Apartisan American, Chapters 1, 2, and 3. Flanigan et al., Political Behavior of The American Electorate, 13th edition, Chapter 1.

Terms and Words Students should be able to write a clear and complete definition of each of each of the following: Attitude Attitudes types: affect (likes-dislikes, emotions), cognition, evaluation; cues/heuristics. Attitude characteristics: direction, strength, stability, centrality Ideology Government types: democracy (full democracy, experimental democracy); authoritarianism (modernizing oligarchy, traditional oligarchy); totalitarianism Power Elite theory of political behavior: context (5 institutions), attitudes (political efficacy, emotions, political incapability/incompetence); political behaviors; consequences (government overload, elite policy responsiveness, public support of the regime) Citizen theory of political behavior: context (5 institutions), attitudes (political efficacy, political capability/competence); political behaviors; consequences (elite policy responsiveness, short-term instability, longer-time public support of the regime). Relative deprivation explanation of political behavior: expectations-evaluations gap, marginalization feelings, emotional reactions. Cognitive mobilization explanation of political behavior: information access, information-processing ability, government responsibility attributions/policy dissatisfaction. Rational actor explanation of political behavior: pivotality, individual benefits calculation; individual costs calculation. Participation paradox; Free-rider problem. General incentives explanation of political behavior: internal political efficacy, individual benefits calculation, individual costs calculation, general incentives (civic duty, collective goods benefits, democracy benefits).

Essay Examples Students should be able to write a clear and complete answer for each of the following essay examples: 1. Write an essay that: a) defines attitude; b) describes each one of the five characteristics of attitudes; c) discusses one example of each one of the five characteristics of attitudes.

2 2. Write an essay that: a) defines attitude as well as each of the three types of attitudes; b) describes the attitudes in elite theory of political behavior, as well as attitudes in the citizen theory of political behavior; c) discusses which attitudes in elite theory, as well as which attitudes in citizen theory, are affective, cognitive, or evaluative. 3. Write an essay that: a) describes the institutions, the attitudes, and the consequences in elite theory, as well as the institutions, the attitudes, and the consequences in citizen theory; b) describes which attitudes in elite theory, as well as which attitudes in citizen theory, involve which democratic beliefs and values as reported in Flanigan et al., Chapter 1. c) discusses at least 4 ways in which real-world data question what elite theory says and/or what citizen theory says about the institutions, the attitudes, and the consequences of political behavior. 4. Write an essay that: a) defines the relative deprivation, cognitive mobilization, rational actor, and general incentives explanations of political behavior; b) describes which factors in these explanations have the biggest effects in an overall analysis of political behavior; c) based on the descriptions in (b), discusses at least one way that peoples engagement in political behavior could be increased. 5. Write an essay that: a) defines what elite theory says, what citizen theory says, and what the cognitive mobilization explanation says about peoples political (in)capability/(in)competence; b) describes at least two reasons for the increasing cognitive mobilization of the electorate, as well as which groups in the electorate can be most cognitively mobilized (see Dalton); c) discusses what the descriptions in (b) imply for what elite theory says, for what citizen theory says, and for what the cognitive mobilization explanation says about peoples political (in)capability/political (in)competence.