salience
saliency

Hard to believe when you consider the salience of these issues today.

Salience will influence the weight we give any particular piece of information.

But campaign reform turns out to have surprising political salience.

Here, each ideology can hold more salience in particular circumstances.

"We'll see these issues gain salience as we get closer to the election."

But the weakness of any scandal is its political salience.

He presents Switzerland as an example of a nation with low salience.

It gives added salience to his group's decision to meet last week in a city called Split.

It has "lost none of its political, legal and moral salience."

Finally, you've got to put the issue in the context of your own political situation to evaluate its strength and salience.

Voters' perceptions of fairness also have an important effect on salience.

Being an outsider is certainly not enough to guarantee the salience of one's vision.

The poll showed the political salience of health care.

Increased salience of the need for alcohol over competing needs and responsibilities.

Working memory may decay in proportion to information or an event's salience.

He said both plans reflect "the clarity of need for housing, and its salience as a political issue."

The growing fragility of the world's financial situation gives special salience to such concerns.

Salience is the state or condition of being prominent.

They may prefer one over the other and this is where salience affects a party or a politician's position on an issue.

First, he said, "stress hormones increase the salience of rewards."

She does have strong opinions about the continued salience of the magazine he edits.

In the view of the graded salience hypothesis, context has a very limited role.

Issue salience and public opinion: Are there consequences of agenda-setting?

One reason, of particular salience in developing countries, is that services are regarded with considerable suspicion.

This may reduce salience, since the voters have little influence over which parties are included in the coalition.