Only the economy consistently outranks crime as a concern for the public and, unlike many other issues, the salience of the issue is matched by the intensity of voters' views on it.
Race prejudice can and does decline, as documented by Goldman and Welch, while the salience of racial issues can increase, as shown by Tesler and Sears.
Instead, what seems to have changed is the salience of different issues, as driven by major news events over the past year.
It says: "As a political party, we are more effective at changing what is discussed and debated (the salience of the issues), as opposed to changing what may be long-held and entrenched opinions of each party or views on which party has the best policies on each issue.
The first, the use of an 'I prefer not to say' option to sensitive questions is shown to be responsive to the manipulation of level of privacy concern by increasing the salience of privacy issues, and to experimental manipulations of privacy.
Whether true or not, the political salience of the issue underscores the dangers of an arrangement that precludes the SNB from focusing fully on economic and price stability.
I'm not sure why someone would want to stake out the position that subsidised pre-school for disadvantaged children is unnecessary, for example, because global inequality is falling.Second, while we all should care about welfare globally, we should also recognise that the political salience of the issue is exclusively national.
There is no doubting the salience of the issue in this campaign.
The agenda-setting theoretical framework operates from the perspective of the mass media having the power to transfer the salience of an issue to the public.
The political salience of this issue was apparent throughout the election season preceding the November 2006 midterms, with the congressional failure to enact immigration reform legislation postponing rather than displacing the issue.
