In each issue, we're strengthening our word-finding skills as we take aim at a vague little adjective and think up three ways to make it more specific. Our game this month is Banishing Bland Adjectives. Don’t go straight to the review now-let your working memory empty out first.

Spend at least 20 seconds occupying your mind with the game below. You’ll know you understand what 'vox populi' means when you can explain it without saying 'what everyone is thinking' or 'popular opinion.' try it out:įill in the blank: '(Something incredibly popular) is, apparently, exactly what the vox populi has been calling for.'Įxample: ' Game of Thrones is, apparently, exactly what the vox populi has been calling for. Look away from the screen to explain the definition in your own words. In The Myth of the Spoiled Child, Alfie Kohn reviews the research on coddling, helicopter parenting, participation trophies, and that lazy no-good generation known as the millennials, ultimately urging the vox populi to hush their unfounded complaints. examples:Ī good graduate program in education gives you the tools to question the vox populi, to push past tradition and clinical intuition and find out what really helps students learn. Journalists who talk about 'vox pops' are referring to informal opinion polls, especially those conducted on the street. You might say that a person or publication is a vox populi if they speak up and say, publicly, what most people are wanting, thinking, or believing. Or, talk about the vox populi demanding something, bemoaning something, celebrating something, etc. Talk about agreeing or disagreeing with the vox populi sampling, researching, or understanding the vox populi pleasing, obeying, pandering to, or capitulating to the vox populi or ignoring, dismissing, or disregarding the vox populi. Likewise, talk about the vox populi or, rarely, multiple voces populi.)Īlthough dictionaries don't recognize this, some people use 'vox populi' loosely as an adjective, as in 'a vox populi system'-any system that depends on input from many people. You talk about 'a bottle,' 'three pieces,' and 'many decisions.' (Countable nouns, like 'bottle,' 'piece,' and 'decision,' are words for things that can be broken into exact units. In other words, it's what many (or even most) people want, think, or believe when it comes to any particular topic. The vox populi is the voice of the people, or popular opinion. (To reveal any word with blanks, give it a click.) make your point with.

Can you explain how each of these terms has something to do with voices? Vox populi also shares a root with ad vocate, unequi vocal, and viva voce. Speaking of 'Dei,' can you recall a term that literally means 'a god from a machine,' or a swift, complete, almost magical resolution of a complex problem? That's a deus _ _. I use these estimates to examine patterns of gubernatorial “leapfrog” representation over the last several years.Latin for 'the voice of the people,' vox populi entered our language from a longer Latin maxim: 'Vox populi vox Dei,' meaning 'the voice of the people is the voice of God.' The results match the results from more complex approaches and, moreover, provide the flexibility required to assess hypotheses about changes over time. The method is applied to the 2009–12 waves of the Cooperative Campaign Election Study (CCES). I show that, with minimal assumptions, existing unfolding techniques may be employed that provide common space estimates of the president, members of Congress, governors, the Supreme Court, and other national political actors in a common space. While these attempts have been fruitful, they frequently rely on highly specific data formats and increasing computational complexity. In turn, these common space measures are employed to estimate legislative accountability and ideological congruence. Recently, a literature has emerged seeking to combine methodologies so as to measure ideology in a common space. Measuring the ideology of voters and legislators has long been of interest to political scientists.