# pocketbook issues (felt)

*Ordinarily means:* political issues that directly affect people's personal finances

The parameters of members' own money, such as prices, income and bills, through which a collective self reads how near its walls are.

- Computed level: L20 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [parameter](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-parameter.condition), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social), [money](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-money.economic), [price](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-price.economic), [income](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-income.financial), [bill](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-bill.payment), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [near](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-near.spatial), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end)

**Through:** 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
- Political scientists distinguish pocketbook voting, based on one's own finances, from sociotropic voting, based on the national economy, following Kinder and Kiewiet (1979). *(politics)*

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