Chapter 4 Multiple Choice Questions

. 'How people acquire values and ideas, usually from the immediate social background of family, school, friends, and work places as well as wider influences. Generally thought to be a slow process'. What is this describing?

Political transmission

Temporal socialisation

Political socialisation

Political assimilation

. Which of the following are classifications for the types of political participation in Britain?

Conventional/unconventional

Individual efficacy/collective efficacy

High cost/low cost

High efficacy/low efficacy

. In their famous book 'Political change in Britain', Butler and Stokes (1969) present the Michigan model. What does this model tell us?

The Michigan model entails people developing their attitudes about politics through loyalty to a political party. This attachment persists over time, reinforced within family, employment, and local community.

The Michigan model entails people developing attitudes of anti-politics through increasing exposure to populism via the media, challenger parties or challenger candidates.

The Michigan model entails people developing rational-ignorance, whereby citizens have low political knowledge because the effort to collect this information is more than taking a series of alternative short cuts such as voting for a party that usually represents a person's general interests (this shortcut requires less effort).

. Hibbing and Theiss-Moore (2002) developed what political concept?

Rational ignorance

Anti-politics

Populism

Stealth democracy

. In 2019 by how many points did the Conservative party increase their lead among working class voters?

22

23

21

19

. Which of the following statements are true?

In the 2019 general election, 63% of those in social class A and B voted whereas 53% voted from group D and E.

In the 2019 general election, 52% of ethnic minority voters turned out to vote compared to 63% of white voters.

In the 2019 general election, 59% of those without qualifications turned out to vote, whereas 69% of those with a degree turned out.

In the 2019 general election, 47% of 18-24 year olds turned out to vote whereas 74% of 65+ year olds turned out to vote.

. What is meant by 'first and second order' elections?

The claim that voters attribute importance to elections concerning economic matters. For example, following the 2008 financial crisis, turnout increased in the following election so as to make government aware of their handling of the economy.

The claim that voters attribute importance to national level context, which appear to be higher stakes than local or regional or supranational elections, so are more likely to vote in the former compared to the latter.

The claim that voters attribute greater importance to elections concerning broken trust. For example, when the Liberal Democrats broke their University tuition fee promise to student voters, turnout among students increased the following election so as to hold them accountable.

. Who said this famous quote? 'Class is the basis of British party politics; all else is embellishment and detail'.

Peter Pulzer (1967)

Peter Crewe (1960)

Alfred Jowell (1967)

Matthew Pulzer (1981)

. Hobolt, Leeper and Tilley (2020) are academics who think that class-based identity will be replaced by what?

A populist identity

A Brexit identity

An anti-politics identity

An affective polarisation

. What Is small-p politics?

Small-p politics describes general issues in politics that affect people but are disassociated from formal party rhetoric and electoral politics (for most of the time).

Small-p politics describes general issues in politics that affect people and are associated with formal party rhetoric and electoral politics (for most of the time).

Small-p politics describes issues of anti-politics, issues of lack of trust for a government and its leading party.

Small-p politics describes issues of high populist value that affect people's emotions and values, associated with challenger politicians and parties that are not mainstream.

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