Introduction: Issue Ownership
In: West European politics, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 755-760
ISSN: 1743-9655
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In: West European politics, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 755-760
ISSN: 1743-9655
In: West European politics, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 888-908
ISSN: 1743-9655
In: West European politics, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 778-796
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In: West European politics, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 888-908
ISSN: 0140-2382
In: West European politics, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 755-760
ISSN: 0140-2382
In: West European politics, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 778-796
ISSN: 0140-2382
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 198-208
ISSN: 1354-0688
In: Journal of elections, public opinion and parties, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 1-19
ISSN: 1745-7297
Issue ownership theory argues that when a voter considers a party to be the most competent amongst others to deal with an issue (that is, the party 'owns' the issue), chances are the voter will vote for that party. Recent work has shown that perceptions of issue ownership are dynamic: they are affected by the media coverage of party messages. However, based on the broad literature on partisan bias, we predict that parties' efforts to change issue ownership perceptions will have a difficult time breaching the perceptual screen created by a voter's party preference. Using two separate experiments with a similar design we show that the effect of partisan issue messages on issue competence is moderated by party preference. The effect of issue messages is reinforced when people already like a party, and blocked when people dislike a party. Adapted from the source document.
In: Swiss political science review: SPSR = Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft : SZPW = Revue suisse de science politique : RSSP, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 232-238
ISSN: 1662-6370
In: Journal of elections, public opinion and parties, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 1-19
ISSN: 1745-7297
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 198-208
ISSN: 1460-3683
Whereas extant work on issue ownership treats voters' issue ownership perceptions as independent variables to explain electoral choice or party behaviour, this article examines whether parties can, by communicating on an issue, turn voters' perceptions of issue ownership to their advantage. In contrast to most previous studies that have focused on competence ownership – measured as a party's capacity to handle an issue – this article analyses the short-term and long-term impact of campaign messages on voters' perceptions of associative ownership, which refers to the voters' spontaneous party–issue association, regardless of whether or not voters consider the party as the most competent at dealing with the issue at hand. Based on an online experimental design in Belgium, we show that parties are unable to steal issues that are associated with another party. However, by communicating on their own issues, parties can reinforce their reputation as an associative owner – but only in the short run and only if their previous ownership reputation is not overly strong.
In: West European politics, Band 36, Heft 5, S. 897-918
ISSN: 0140-2382
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In: West European politics, Band 36, Heft 5, S. 897-918
ISSN: 1743-9655
In: The public opinion quarterly: POQ, Band 76, Heft 4, S. 771-782
ISSN: 1537-5331
In: Public opinion quarterly: journal of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Band 76, Heft 4, S. 771-770
ISSN: 0033-362X