Voting Behavior Clips

Click here to answer the first set of questions:

1.  What is demography?

 

2.  How is demography used in political science?

 

3.  Name five demographic factors used to study voting behavior.

 

4.  Why do people under 25 have a low voter turnout?

 

5.  What do people of the baby boom generation have such a high voter turnout?

 

6.  Historically, who have voted more, men or women? What is the latest trend on this?

 

7.  What is the link between how much money one makes and likelihood to vote?

 

Click here to answer the next set of questions:

8.  Define voter intensity.

 

9.  What is political efficacy?

 

10.  Differentiate between internal and external political efficacy:

 

11.  What is issue saliency? Give one example of an issue with low saliency and one example of an issue with high saliency.

 

12.  How do consensus and polarization affect voter intensity?