germane

passend, relevant

This framework begins with four sets of factors that serve as the primary independent variables in our model: (1) demographic background characteristics of voters, including their partisan predispositions, which for us serve primarily as controls; along with two more directly germane to decision making, (2) political sophistication or expertise, and (3) what psychologists call "task demands" but what in our context is better labeled campaign factors. by KorbenDallas