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Public opinion research

the survey question asking people to name the nation's most important problem, used to measure issue salience although answers mix importance with the presence of a problem.

In public opinion research, most important problem refers to the survey question asking people to name the nation's most important problem, used to measure issue salience although answers mix importance with the presence of a problem. This meaning comes from Wlezien (2005) in Electoral Studies.[1]

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  1. Wlezien, C. (2005). On the salience of political issues: The problem with ‘most important problem’. Electoral Studies, 24(4), 555-579. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2005.01.009

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