Meanings
- uncountableThe state, condition, or quality of being an issue or problem.
Thus the "issueness" of an issue emerges as the joint effect of values and facts, interests and events, subjective and objective factors.
1999, Malcolm Waters, Modernity: After modernity - Page 3522 more examples
If it really is an obstruction to the emergence of the issue, then there should be a negative association between levels of industrial influence in the fifty sample cities and the issueness of air pollution in those cities.
1970, Marvin Surkin, Alan Wolfe, Caucus for a New Political Science (U.S.), An End to political science: the Caucus papers - Page 148These properties capture the 'issueness' of a social problem. If they were easily operationalized, a scale measuring issueness could be derived simply by adding the scores of an issue on the dimensions above.
1999, Jan-Erik Lane, Svante O. Ersson, Politics and Society in Western Europe - Page 267
Origin
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