{
  "id": "pocketbook-issues.felt",
  "term": "pocketbook issues",
  "sense": "felt",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 20,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "The parameters of members' own money, such as prices, income and bills, through which a collective self reads how near its walls are.",
  "folk_gloss": "political issues that directly affect people's personal finances",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "parameter.condition",
      "member.social",
      "money.economic",
      "price.economic",
      "income.financial",
      "bill.payment",
      "read.information",
      "near.spatial",
      "wall.range-end"
    ],
    "interaction": "Walls of the whole are hard to see; the parameters each member meets in daily spending are easy to see, so the group reads its walls through them.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "group walls read through private parameters",
      "politics measured at the scale of a household"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Political scientists distinguish pocketbook voting, based on one's own finances, from sociotropic voting, based on the national economy, following Kinder and Kiewiet (1979).",
      "domain": "politics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "pain-at-the-pump.felt-price",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "pocketbook issues are the parameters; the pain at the pump is one price read as all of them"
    },
    {
      "id": "economic-anxiety.unlocated",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the parameters about which economic anxiety reports"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "bread and butter issue",
    "bread and butter issues",
    "kitchen table issue",
    "kitchen table issues",
    "pocketbook issue",
    "pocketbook issues"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-pocketbook-issues.felt"
}