Mass Polarization & Negative Partisanship | Racial Division and Dem. Change | Economic Inequality | Non-test Class Facts | Celebrities and Politics |
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What is negative partisanship
Innate anger at opposite partisans
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What is ethnicity
An ascriptive common identity, developed through kinship. Typically involving a racial, religious or language group.
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What is income and wealth inequality
An uneven distribution of the flow variable of resources. An uneven distribution of the stock (property) variable of resources
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What is Diet Coke/Coke Zero
Prof. Mickey's Favorite Beverage
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Who is FDR
Cardi B's Favorite President, and the man that tried court packing
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What is sorting
Partisans hold similar positions but separate into separate teams
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What is ranked vs. unranked groups
Two types of social stratification synonymous or not, with group membership
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What are economic causes of income inequality
Globalization, automation of labor, immigration, skill gap, decline of unions
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What is Weimar Germany
A Western European country in a specific time period we spent way too long reading about
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Who is Ronald Reagan
Another celebrity president
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What is a social cleavage
A social division in which the groups involved are conscious of their collective identity
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What is an ethnic party
A party mostly organized and mobilized through their identity as an exclusive group.
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What are political causes of income inequality
Money in elections, judicial rulings, interest groups and lobbyists
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What is our classroom
MH G449
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Kim Kardashian
Prominent reality TV star who is dipping their toes into criminal justice reform, married to a Trump supporter
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What is issue and social based polarization
Increasing social distance and issue-based distance among republicans and democrats
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What is racial resentment
A social science term for specific negative racial beliefs about Black, Latinx, and other marginalized groups
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What is Meltzer and Richard (1981)
Authors who argued that democracy leads to lower inequality because of gov't responsiveness to median income of workers (assumes "everybody votes)
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Eugenia's Cat
Percy
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What are the factors that influence the extent of issue-based sorting in the US
Equal standing of Black and Latinx people and the Religious/secular divide
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What is Obama's presidential election
A reason behind the resurgence of racial resentment to mainstream voters in the late 2000's, as well as the formation of the Tea Party
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What are reasons for rising inequality in the US
Across parties, a "free market capitalism" shift, immigration and low turnout, gerrymandering, wealth defense, and uneven access to political institutions
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