Montag, 23. April 2018, 17:00 - 18:00 iCal

What is issue ownership?

'political parties' position, priority, and performance'. Guest talk by Henrik Seeberg (Aarhus University)

Hörsaal 10, Rathausstraße 19
Rathausstraße 19, 1010 Wien

Vortrag

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Scholarly interest in issue ownership is rapidly growing. Yet, while recent research brings lots of valuable empirical evidence on the ingredients of issue ownership, it does not bring it together to offer a unifying conceptualization of issue ownership to take the next step. A major part of the shortcoming is that existing work overlooks one central ingredient, namely a party’s issue position. Analyzing unprecedented data on issue ownership, parties’ policy position, and parties issue emphasis across countries and issues, this study brings important clarity to the concept of issue ownership: Echoing the founding fathers of the concept of issue ownership, the analysis shows that the party with issue ownership side with the median voter. Moreover, a party’s issue emphasis only improves issue ownership insofar as the party promotes a position close to the median voter. Yet, in substantial terms, party position primarily matters if the party actively emphasizes its position to the voters. Hence, party position is crucial to issue ownership – and more important than party issue emphasis – but issue ownership is more than just policy representation.

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Veranstalter

Institut für Staatswissenschaft

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Kontakt

Julia Barta
Institut für Staatswissenschaft
01/4277 49901
julia.barta@univie.ac.at

Erstellt am Dienstag, 27. März 2018, 15:31
Letzte Änderung am Mittwoch, 04. April 2018, 08:44