o it. Chapter Four Belief System: An ordering of opinions and attitudes held together by some theme or pattern; not a random assortment of beliefs.Candidate Evaluation: The personal appeal of an electoral candidate; candidate evaluation may be positive or negative, and, where it is a strong factor, it may exert greater influnce on vote choices than party identification or voters' opinions about issues. Fairness Doctrine: A regulation of the Federal Communications Commision that required broadcasters to provide coverage of both sides of controversial issues (repealed in 1987) .Gender Gap: A difference between men as a group and women as a group with respect to some specific criterion, such as support for given political parties.Malapportionment: A condition which legislative districts are of very different populations - thus making each person's vote worth less in a larger district than in a smaller district.Party Identification: A person's feeling of attachment to a political party. Proportional Representation: An electoral system in which parties receive seats based on the percentage of the votes they receive in an election.Public Opinion Polls: Data on the opinions, demographic characteristics, and vote choices of citizens.Redistricting: The process of redrawing the boundaries of legislative districts; indended to reflect the changes in population growth and density.Single-member Districts: An electoral system where each distirct has one representative (the other candidates receive no representation) .Socioeconomic Status: A person's position in society, in terms of their income, educational status, and occupational status. Voter Turnout: A measure of how many voters actually vote in a given election.Chapter Five Catchall Parties: Parties that attempt to appeal a large number of voting blocs and thus have very poorly defined policy / ideology. Christian Democrats: Political parties and their supporters who profess a political doc...
