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    Political socialization the process in which people create and form new ideas that are mainly about politics and make assumptions about political points in today’s society. This is important because, in reality people are able form ideas about political standing points, and socialize about them with friends, family members, professors, and as well as in classes. I personally found that one family members, my uncle, that always talk about politics has influenced me to discover more information towards

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    Political socialization is a concept that shows the development of children and adolescents who attain political cognition, attitudes, and behaviors. Political socialization routinely begins in children. There are multiple factors that influence the political socialization of citizens. Research theorizes that family and school teachers are the most influential. Recent research also states that media plays an important role on influence as well. Everything a child does from birth to around the adolescent

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    The polarization of political parties in the United States is more evident than when the American Political Science Association wrote its 1950s Report arguing for political parties to be responsible. Recent scholarly work, demonstrates scholarly on the causes and consequences of political polarization (Abramowitz, 2017; Levendusky and Malhotra 2016; Kernell 2016; Brunell, Grofman, and Merrill 2016). However, the polarization literature highlights the ongoing debate as to whether the mass public

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    achieve their similar goals. These goals are unable to be met by the individuals themselves, which is why they join an interest group. Political parties are groups of individuals who organize to win elections, regulate public policy and operate the government. Interest groups and political parties both generate differently, and the purpose they serve our political system. Interest groups do not want to run and operate the government. An interest will pressure elected officials to favor its causes

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    by the conflicting political opinions of it's citizens. Politics nowadays are extremely polarized, so much so that we are at a 20 year high with the end nowhere near in sight. This has led to people firmly distrusting and even hating each other, seen by the fact that 27% of Democrats and 36% of Republicans believe that the opposing party is a threat to the nation’s well being. Political polarization must be put to the end, and there seems to be one major culprit, political parties. The creators

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    In a political system where nearly every adult may vote but where knowledge, wealth, social position, access to officials, and other resources are unequally distributed, who actually governs?” (Dahl 88) From April of 1775 to September of 1783, the Patriots fought to alleviate the colonies from the oppressive rule of Great Britain. All those for independence, rallied together to bring about a freedom which was at the time inconceivable and formed the United States of America. American Government,

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    Political satire and commentary in our society are topics that have been around for many years. Whether it was Shakespeare using comedy to explain a tragedy or Daniel Tosh just “saying it how it is” to make people laugh, political satire has always been controversial. Satire in the United States has consisted of pushing political boundaries to create change, inspiring action through humor and most importantly, developing ongoing conversations about real problems that the United States and the world

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    leadership” (Cronin and Genovese 2012, 1). Political leadership is a broad multidimensional phenomenon that has been analyzed through various lenses; yet there is no one concrete definition. In the following response, I will present a brief overview of my interpretation through which I have come to understand political leadership and its importance. Then, I will examine the relevance of the typologies and authors we have considered in relation to political leadership. When thinking about leadership

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    analyzes the changes in political affiliation of late adolescents, college students, and US adults for the past 45 years. Using questionnaires that asked the participants about their political views, the investigators were able to track the political affiliation of these groups over the past 45 years to to determine whether the social conditions of the time affect the political views of each person over the years. Recently, there have been more individuals that have political affiliations that align

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    throughout the world is political corruption. Political corruption can be surveyed as when a ranking government official use their power to make illegitimate gains in their private life. However, to define political corruption would be an illicit act done by an elected official that institutes political corruption if the act is unswervingly correlated to their authorized responsibilities, which is also done beneath the color of law or encompasses trading in influence. Political corruption doesn’t always

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