Issueness

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.

These 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.

Thus the "issueness" of an issue emerges as the joint effect of values and facts, interests and events, subjective and objective factors.