Advocates must manufacture collective attention before issues reach ballots

Evidence

But collective attention does not just happen; it is constructed. This requires work—the reality is that most problems haven’t even made their way to the ballot, or to the capitol halls. In these cases, it is the work of advocates and activists to bring their issue to the public attention, and to insist upon it until enough people care to start changing things. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 448

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Political issues only become contested once enough people attend to them (similarity 0.83)
• Every major social movement began by demanding collective attention (similarity 0.83)
• Issues become political only when enough public attention first lands on them (similarity 0.82)
• Attention activism requires collectively building attention’s public meaning (similarity 0.80)