Problem
I. Identify and discuss two strategies that states have adopted in order to increase voter turnout. Identify and discuss strategies that states have adopted in order to decrease voter turnout. Explain why would state officials might want to decrease their voters' turnout?
II. The lecture discussed the idea of "political socialization" as a category that political scientists use to help explain how citizens form their political ideologies and party affiliation. Explain what this term means? Which of the socialization agents discussed in the lecture do you recognize as having some impact on how your political ideology or party identification formed?
III. What are some of the techniques that mass media platforms employ in order to influence citizens' perspectives of current events. Discuss an example from the lecture or your own political knowledge where the media's portrayals of the facts proved incorrect or otherwise unfair to the truth.