Measure Political Attitude

As society rapidly changes with an influx of new ideas and issues, studying the college educated and those who are not will help evaluate behaviors and attitudes towards the government, ultimately, clearing the way to adaption into a modern society that perhaps offer remedies of educational and voting discrepancies or even close the gaps between political ideology or identification. Hence, this paper proposes the research question: How does education level influence political party identification.

A lot of factor influences a person’s political views. A person is influenced by a lot of things that make them able to take the political stance at a point of life. As an individual, he walks through the pace of long life to understand the values and beliefs that he has been hearing since childhood. Sometimes it is really hard for one to decide what political party he wants to support, at that time he can take the suggestion from his family, friends, media and online quizzes.

America is the land of the free; it is a place where people have the right to express words and form them into actions. Given the right to say what’s on their minds, Americans are well-known as an opinionated crowd. Political attitudes particularly have the tendency to come across strongly. Most of Americans’ political perspectives fall into two distinct parties: Democrats and Republicans. These groups have smaller groups within them, all based on varying public opinion.

The data obtained for this project has been gathered from the American National Election Studies, better known for short as “ANES.” Before continuing it is best to give some background information of the American National Election Studies, and why they are a reliable source for information. From the ANES website, they explain, “The mission of the American National Election Studies is to inform explanations of election outcomes by providing data that support rich hypothesis testing, maximize methodological excellence, measure many variables, and promote comparisons across people, contexts, and time” (ANES). ANES is a reliable source for data because it is used by many other social scientists. Many experiments conducted by other researchers have relied solely on the data from the American National Election Studies. The data source that is being used throughout this paper, are results from the American National Election Studies data file for 2012 (ANES, 2012). The ANES is an academic survey and a reputable source, which allows for investigation into how variables such as income, race and education has an impact on party identification.

For all potential factors that could affect a presidential election outcome, we take in voter behaviors. Voters could have their own affiliations or preferences in relation to the

Party identification is the political party that an individual categorizes them self with. Political parties came about as a way to organize citizens with similar beliefs and attitudes. These parties then attempt to influence the government by electing members into office. Today there are two main parties people can identify: Republican and Democrat. There is also a third choice, being an Independent, but for the purpose of this paper this group will not be recognized as a political party. These reasons will be discussed later. There are many different theories as to why people do or do not identify with a political party, including social psychology, issue related, and psychological attachments. I believe the social psychology

I was surprised when I saw my results of the political stance test and I have three reasons why. The first reason is that my stance was different from the majority of young adults. According to a research done by newspaper agency "The Tech", most people around my age are located on the left wing and believe that society should be administered in a libertarian way. This is because young adults do not want to be suppressed, so they dislike authorities and want to create new cultures/beliefs rather than inheriting them, so they are placed on the left wing. As I grew up in a similar environment as these people, I assumed I would have similar beliefs, but my graph differed. This showed that similar environments, do not always make people have similar beliefs. The second reason is that I was located on the right wing. The right side has strong

With the majority of the survey being nominal with question variation the range of the answers could be Strong Democrat all the way to Strong Republican, A question that leads the research is, “How much exposure to media did the individual experience before voting and did that affect the way that individual voted?” Because at the end of the questioning that is the real answer to the question we’re asking. There is a noticeable differentiation in most of the questions asking how strong or weak an affiliation is or how strongly or how weakly a person feels about a well-known political figure. No matter if the figure is currently in politics or in politics past. The main (independent) variable is whether a person went out and voted and the dependent variable is how much media, including television, radio, newspaper, and internet, influence was placed upon the person prior to the election and whether or not that determined who he/she voted for.

Politics affect the lives of every single American, yet the US voter turnout rate is only roughly 55 percent as of 2012 (Peters 1). As a country and population, Americans are constantly chastised for their low or otherwise inadequate political involvement. One can see, in reference to American politics, that there are three main ideas toward politics-- and there’s clearly a ranking within them. Americans take one of three stances toward politics: positive, neutral, and negative, in order of how helpful these views are to our political system.

Party Identification is one of the most important factors in today’s political system. The definition of party identification is the loyalty one has with a specific political party, this research will dive into the reasons why those loyalties are formed. Here in the United States there are two major political parties, Republican and Democrat, each having their own similarities and differences. Age of the voter will be looked at heavily in order to see the divide between parties. Then education will be observed to see any tendencies that may have been formed with higher and lower educated groups. Finally, income

The other most significant factor is, interestingly, the candidates in a given election. Alvarez et al. found that in the 2008 election, 31.2% of people reported not liking the choices provided to them as a major factor in not voting (33). Of these individuals, 48% self-identified as Republican compared to 35% who self-identified as Democrat (34). Of the respondent pool, the 13 percentage point difference in political part self-identification may not be significant though rising partisanship and the subsequent Tea Party movement may have played a

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Your critique of the bar graph was brief and insightful. While the bar graph is clear and precise in showing the differences in sources used by voters to gain information about the different presidential candidates, the author indicates a discrepancy in the manner used to collect the data. Specifically, the critique pinpoints the main drawback of telephone surveys, which leads to a biased

This method of measurement offers a reasonable amount of validity for a reason that includes a concise, clear question with different dimensions of answer in which the person being survey may choose the number that best represents their attitude. To measure the presidential vote the following question was asked, “for whom did you vote for President in 2012?’ Again, the question is straightforward and unlikely to be confusing which ensures validity and reliability. The options for the question regarding presidential vote are Obama, Romney, and other, which includes candidates from minority parties.

Possible Problems with Attempting to Measure Attitudes The question what problems might arise in trying to measure attitudes itself conjures up many complicated questions that seem tricky to answer. The complicated task is that we are all unique and have our individual differences. A basic assumption on measuring attitudes is that ‘a person’s attitude can be measured by asking questions about thoughts, feelings and likely actions toward the attitude object (Hoff and Vaughan, 1995, Chapter 5)