1st Edition

Issue Salience in International Politics

Edited By Kai Oppermann, Henrike Viehrig Copyright 2011
304 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book analyses the salience of foreign and security policy issues to domestic actors, its role in the analysis of international politics and its consequences for foreign policy decision-making. It provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of issue salience and develops the state of the art. Beginning with a chapter on the concept of issue salience and its role in analysing... Read more

Introduction  1. Analyzing Issue Salience in International Politics: Theoretical Foundations and Methodological Approaches Kai Oppermann and Catherine E. de Vries  Public Opinion  2. Two Indicators, One Conclusion: On the Public Salience of Foreign Affairs in Germany Before and After Reunification Harald Schoen  3. Familiarity Breeds Consent: Issue Salience and Support for the Use of Military Force Philip Everts  4. Issue Salience, Political Affiliation and the Use of Force: Germany in Comparative Perspective Jörg Jacobs  5. Salience as Priming: A Latent Class Regression Approach to EU Issue Voting in England Marco R. Steenbergen  6. How Does a Threat Become Salient? The Case of Swine Flu in Sweden Roxanna Sjöstedt  Intermediary Actors: The Media and Political Parties  7. Integrating Salience and Interpretation: A Constructivist Approach to Media Framing in the Post-Cold War Era Josef Seethaler and Gabriele Melischek  8. The Salience of Frames and their Effects on the Support for CFSP and Supranational Policy Allocation Claes H. de Vreese and Thomas Klausch  9. EU Media Salience, Instrumental Thinking and Identification with the EU Florian Stöckel  10. Experts Mistaken? The Salience of European Integration in Austrian National Election Campaigns in 2006 and 2008 Sarah Meyer  11. EU Issue Salience and Domestic Party Competition Catherine E. de Vries and Marc van de Wardt  Political Elites  12. The Cognitive Dimension of Parliamentary Influence: Trends in the Salience of Foreign Affairs Issues in the German Bundestag, 2005–10 Thomas Jäger, Kai Oppermann, Alexander Höse and Henrike Viehrig  13. Salient Issues in German Foreign Policy: Results from a 2009 Elite Survey Henning Riecke  14. The Salience of European Affairs in the United States Congress Alexander Höse  15. An Actor-Based Measure of Issue Salience: Information Acquisition and the Case of the United States Supreme Court Ryan C. Black, Amanda C. Bryan and Timothy R. Johnson  Conclusion  16. Analyzing Issue Salience in International Politics: Preliminary Findings and Open Questions Henrike Viehrig and Kai Oppermann

Biography

Kai Oppermann and Henrike Viehrig are Assistant Professors at the Institute for Political Science and European Affairs, University of Cologne, Germany