Government policy and citizen passion: A study of issue publics in contemporary America

Krosnick, Jon A.

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“…Their 'catch-all' (Kirchheimer 1966) character makes larger parties more likely to campaign on a wider range of issues. In contrast, smaller parties will receive support from a very low number of 'issue publics' (Converse 1964, Krosnick 1990). …”

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Issue Engagement in Election Campaigns The Impact of Electoral Incentives and Organizational Constraints

Meyer¹,

Wagner²

2015

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It is easier for voters to make informed electoral choices when parties talk about the same issues. Yet parties may decide against such 'issue engagement'. We hypothesize that issue engagement between parties is more likely (a) when the similarity of their policy positions means that both parties have clear electoral incentives to talk about the same topics and (b) when parties face few organizational constraints in terms of campaign resources. Our empirical analysis of 2,453 press releases by Austrian parties shows that ideological proximity and party resources affect the level of issue engagement. These findings suggest that issue engagement is less likely precisely where it is needed most, which has important implications for understanding the democratic quality of election campaigns. Pre-print version of the accepted manuscript:Meyer, Thomas M., and Markus Wagner (2015). 'Issue engagement in election campaigns: the impact of electoral incentives and organizational constraints ', Political Science Research and Methods. FirstView.

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Issue Engagement in Election Campaigns The Impact of Electoral Incentives and Organizational Constraints

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Wagner²

2015

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“…Analyzing the American National Election Study (ANES) data, Krosnick [1] found no strong correlations among the perceived importance of various issues. For example, respondents perceiving foreign policy to be important were not necessarily to think that domestic social issues were also important.…”

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“…Yet, several studies [1,[12][13][14] have reported that people are interested in only a few issues and attach varying degrees of attitude importance to each issue. Analyzing the American National Election Study (ANES) data, Krosnick [1] found no strong correlations among the perceived importance of various issues.…”

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“…Although the dominant view in the literature posits that citizens tend to be generalists who are relatively evenly interested in a wide range of public affairs, others have supported an alternative view that citizens tend to be specialists, who care only about a few OPEN ACCESS particular issues and are generally indifferent to all others [1][2][3][4][5]. While the debate is still under way, several media scholars have recently begun to highlight the possibility of the growth of specialists in conjunction with the changing media environment [6,7].…”

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“…The lack of empirical support is mostly due to inadequate instrumentation of the concept of the specialist and generalist. Since Krosnick's [1] series of co-authored studies in the early 1990s, researchers have employed personal issue importance as a proxy measure of issue specialists (i.e., issue publics). That is, those who think an issue is important to them are treated as specialists within the domain.…”

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2013

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Abstract:Although recent research suggests that the selective nature of new media helps foster issue specialists, little empirical evidence has been documented, mostly due to theoretical and methodological limitations. Extending the concept of issue publics, the present study proposes a method to estimate the degree to which an individual is a specialist-or a generalist-type citizen. Applying the method to the 2008 American National Election Studies data, the study reveals various characteristics of specialists and generalists. The results indicate that specialist-type citizens are positively associated with online news use, but negatively associated with conventional news media, such as television, newspaper, and radio. The implications of the growth of specialists as well as the validity of the proposed method are discussed.

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1996

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Government policy and citizen passion: A study of issue publics in contemporary America

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