Day 13

Political Ideologies and Beliefs: Political Socialization

Learning Targets:  Students will be able to....

• Explain how the ideologies of the two major parties shape policy debates. 
• Explain how U.S. political culture (e.g., values, attitudes, and beliefs) influences the formation, goals, and implementation of public policy over time. 
• Describe different political ideologies regarding the role of government in regulating the marketplace. 

When people note that more and more voters are cutting their landline phones and that more and more people are refusing to pick up phone calls from numbers they don't know, they are identifying problems that the polling industry has long struggled with and continue to try to adapt to.

-Kristen Soltis Anderson, 35 year old conservative writer and journalist

Opener - Post yourself on the spectrum on the board!

Below are a series of issues. Take a minute and consider the each issue on the list and then place yourself in the appropriate quadrant by putting your post-it with your name written on it clearly on the political spectrum on the whiteboard.  We will work through these one at a time and then reset.

1. Environmental regulation
2. Public education
3. Healthcare
4. Immigration

Activity #1:  TIP-C+

Activity #2: Political Typologies Quiz - Think/Pair/Share

https://www.isidewith.com/political-quiz

or

https://www.people-press.org/quiz/political-party-quiz/

1.  Which question or questions did you feel failed to give you good options?  In other words, you didn't agree with either?

2.  Which words used in the quiz did you feel might be "unfair" or "biased"?  What word would you have used?

3.  Did the quiz ask more questions about "social" issues, or "government" issues?  In other words, was the quiz trying to determine your horizontal or vertical position on the spectrum we created in class last time?

Close: -  N-50 - Political Parties

LD - Political party is an organized group of people, often with common views, who come together to contest elections and hold power in the government. The party agrees on some proposed policies and programs, with a view to promoting the collective good or furthering their supporters' interests.

SD - 

Examples - Republican, Democrat, Green, Libertarian, Socialist?

Non-Examples - Interest Groups (NRA, AARP, etc.), PAC's, "Independents" 

Related terms - Elections, Primary, Caucus, Linkage Institutions, Conservative, Liberal, Moderate

Close - CPE