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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"issue salience"”.
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Strategic Versus Sincere Behavior: The Impact of Issue Salience and Congress on the Supreme Court Docket
… the merits. To test this, I measure the impact issue salience and ideological distance between Congress and the Supreme Court has on the agenda. The results indicate that whether the Supreme Court behaves either sincerely or strategically depends on the policy area. The strategic nature of the …
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An audience focused approach to framing climate-change communication in agriculture
… study was to explore the frames and messages, issue salience, and communication preferences agricultural producers in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas use and accept related to climate change and the impacts of a changing climate. It was of additional interest to explore the climate-change beliefs …
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Attribute Agenda Setting, Attribtue Priming, and The Public's Evaluation of Genetically Modified (GM) Food in South Korea
… priming). Findings support the transmission of issue salience from the media to the public. First, more salient attributes in the news media were more likely to influence people's evaluation of GM food. Second, the media - public correspondence between the media's agenda and the public's agenda …
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Revenge of the Radical Right: Why Minority Accommodation Mobilizes Extremist Voting
… organized minorities. (3) I endogenize issue salience and identify coalition politics - i.e., coalitions of mainstream parties and parties supporting minority protection - as a key mechanism that increases the salience of identity issues in political competition, and benefits radical …
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Proximity, Politics and Policy Attitudes in the North American Context
… of intergroup contact, localized knowledge, issue awareness, and issue salience. The articles deal with three substantive topics: the Canada–United States relationship, attitudes toward energy transportation infrastructure, and attitudes toward immigration policy. Specifically, the thesis …
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The interplay of politics, ideology, and culture in news framing of President Xi's first state visit
… addition, the distribution of quoted sources and issue salience were also found to be different in reports of The New York Times and the People's Daily. Possible ideological, cultural and political forces were elaborated upon in order to explain the coverage differences between the two newspapers.
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Are American News Magazines Setting the Agenda for Japan Bashing? A Content Analysis of Coverage of Japanese Economic Activities: 1981-1990
… of negativeness as well as the public issue salience. On average, the public was expected to see "war"-related words more than twice both per article and per page in the 1986-1990 period. The calcified imagery of economic "wars" that connotes mutual antagonism seems to underlie the …
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Climate Change in the Changing Climate of News Media: A Comparative Analysis of Mainstream Media and Blog Coverage of Climate Change in the United States and the People's Republic of China, 2005-2008
… (1) "episodic vs. thematic" framing, (2) micro-issue salience, (3) audience-based frames, (4) attribution of responsibility and (5) skepticism towards climate change. A purposive sample using multi-stage probability sampling techniques was comprised of 638 articles from three prestige U.S. …
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The Impact of European Union Asylum Policy on Domestic Asylum Policy in Germany and Britain: 1990-2007
… of asylum seekers. The dissertation shows that issue salience in the media and among the general public affects the relationship between these variables. Depending on the political-institutional context, the factors identify above interact with each other, resulting in differential impact of EU …
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Accelerating the delivery of climate targets: Technology and behaviour in the road to net zero
… to the future's. Moreover, public views over the issue salience of climate policy are lower than scientists', implying biased voter beliefs that impede adoption of the urgent policies needed to create near-term mitigation. This thesis postulates that policy myopia and biased beliefs can be …