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  1. valence issuenoun

    Issues on which most voters and candidates share the same opinion.

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  1. Valence issue

    A valence issue is an issue where there is a broad amount of consensus among voters. As valence issues are representative of a goal or quality, voters use valence issues to evaluate a political party’s effectiveness in producing this particular goal or quality.The valence issue concept is a way of theorizing about how voters are motivated to vote for competing parties in an election. The concept was developed by Donald Stokes’s critique of voting behavior theories which Stokes foresaw as being too confined to ideas about a voter’s rationality and ideological impulses, as with spatial models of party competition. Since Stokes noticed during an overview of historical U.S elections that voters sometimes were not be bound by self-interest or ideology.Valence issues can be contrasted and opposed to position issues, as position issues are organised by a voter’s ideology and their inclination for a selection of competing interests, rather than organised by the feelings of consensus found within valence issues. As valence issues can shape the outcome of an election and therefore a future government, voters and politicians both adjust their behavior according to valence issues.

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  1. Valence issue

    A valence issue is a political issue about which voters will usually share a common preference. The archetypal examples are motherhood and apple pie. Prosperity is a common valence issue. All voters will want their community to prosper and so the consideration is not whether to seek prosperity or not but instead the issue is which party is most likely to deliver it. Valence issues may be contrasted with position issues — divisive issues for which there are different preferences. In a study of campaigns for the US Senate, candidates focussed upon valence issues in 77% of their advertising. The issues identified as positional or valence were:

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of valence issue in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of valence issue in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9


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