What Are the Sources of Political Parties’ Issue Ownership? Testing Four Explanations at the Individual Level

Stubager, Rune; Slothuus, Rune

doi:10.1007/s11109-012-9204-2

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“…This has been documented for both Italian and British voters by Bellucci (2006, pp. 563-4) and Sanders et al (2011) just as Stubager and Slothuus (2013) have reached a similar conclusion for Danish voters (cf.…”

Section: Highlighting Positions On Issuessupporting

confidence: 56%

“…602-3) refers to as 'performance issues' on which there is general agreement about the overall policy goals (cf. Stokes 1963;1992 Further, the relevance of performance considerations to ownership perceptions is confirmed both at the individual level by Stubager and Slothuus (2013) It should be noted that there is a connection between hypotheses two and five that are both based on the same basic, positional logic. This reflects the fact that the positional logic may be invoked depending upon how valence issues are framed (cf.…”

Section: Highlighting Party Constituency Connectionsmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…602-3) conception of issue ownership, it is only recently that research has begun to address the influence of voters' perceptions of parties' constituencies on issue ownership perceptions. In the first study to include the variable, thus, Stubager and Slothuus (2013) have documented that such perceptions do play an important role to issue ownership in the sense that parties seen as representing groups (e.g., the lowest income groups) associated with a given issue (e.g., redistribution) are more likely to own the issue. In the same vein, Petrocik et al (2003, p. 602) note that 'A party can lose an advantage on a constituency-based issue when major shifts occur in the party coalitions.'…”

Section: Highlighting Party Constituency Connectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Previous work suggests that parties emphasize certain issues on which they hold a performance and competence advantage over their competitors, while deemphasizing the preferred issues of their opponents (Budge and Farlie 1983). Stressing the 'ownership' of issues should eventually lead the electorate to associate them with these issues, which is electorally advantageous (Petrocik 1996, Stubager andSlothuus 2012). Since wedge issue competition is largely aimed at internally dividing the parties in government, our findings suggest that certain parties may highlight particular issues regardless of their degree of ownership, but rather due to the fact that this particular issue splits rivals.…”

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Exploiting the Cracks: Wedge Issues in Multiparty Competition

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Hobolt³

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“…The stable component comes from parties' distinctive constituencies (Stubager & Slothuus, 2012). Yet, parties can also selectively (de)-emphasize certain issues, to reactivate old issue ownership, or to compete over new issues or steal issues from other parties (e.g., Damore, 2004).…”

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Priming Issues, Party Visibility, and Party Evaluations: The Impact on Vote Switching

Geers¹,

Bos

2016

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Voter volatility has become a hallmark of Western democracies in the past three decades. At the same time short-term factors-such as the media's coverage of issues, parties, and candidates during an election campaign-have become more important for voters' decisions. While previous research did look at how campaign news in general affects electoral volatility in general, it has omitted to explicitly test the mechanisms underlying these effects. Building on theories of agenda setting, (affective) priming, and issue ownership, the current study aims to explain why certain news aspects lead voters to switch their vote choice. We theorize it is the visibility of a party, the evaluation of a party, and the attention for issues owned by a party that primes voters to switch to a certain party. We use national panel survey data (N = 765) and link this to an extensive content analysis of campaign news on television and in newspapers in the run up to the 2012 Dutch national elections. The results show that issue news leads to vote change in the direction of the party that owns the issue. Even stronger is the effect of party visibility on vote switching. Our results, however, find the strongest support for the effect of party evaluations on vote change: More favorable news about a party increases switching to that party. Keywords campaign news, content analysis, media effects, panel data, voting behaviorIn the past three decades the number of floating voters in Western democracies has increased considerably. The linkages between parties and citizens are of declining importance (Dalton & Wattenberg, 2000) and voters make more independent political choices instead of relying on traditional loyalties (Van der Meer, Van Elsas, Lubbe, & Van der Brug, 2013). As a consequence, citizens switch more often between parties than they did before, not only between elections, but also during election campaigns. With the decline in voter loyalty, sociological determinants have lost much of their predictive power (Dalton, 2013 Marks, 1999; Van der Meer et al., 2013) and results are scattered. Some report positive correlations between media use and volatility (Baker et al., 2006;Forrest & Marks, 1999), while others find a negative relationship (e.g., Bybee et al., 1981) and some find no effect (Dassonneville, 2011). Although these studies give insight into the effect of media use, the effect of media coverage is understudied.More recent studies have investigated whether different types of campaign coverage, most notably issue news and contest or strategic news, have an effect on individual-level vote switching (Adriaansen, Van Praag, & De Vreese, 2012;Takens, 2013). Adriaansen and colleagues (2012) found that issue news can induce voter uncertainty, whereas strategic news decreases voter uncertainty. This voter uncertainty would subsequently spark electoral volatility. In contrast, the study by Takens (2013) showed that voters become volatile in response to contest news, while issue news leads to stability in vote preferences. In this stud...

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What Are the Sources of Political Parties’ Issue Ownership? Testing Four Explanations at the Individual Level

Cited by 86 publications

References 27 publications

What can a party say? How parties' communication can influence voters' issue ownership perceptions

What can a party say? How parties' communication can influence voters' issue ownership perceptions

Exploiting the Cracks: Wedge Issues in Multiparty Competition

Priming Issues, Party Visibility, and Party Evaluations: The Impact on Vote Switching

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