The micro-foundations of party competition and issue ownership: the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue salience and party attachments

While previous research on the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue attitudes and their party support emphasize citizens’ issue positions, political competition revolves equally around issue salience, i.e., debates over which issue areas political parties should prioritize. Using multi-wave panel s...

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Main Authors: Neundorf, Anja, Adams, James
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Published: Cambridge University Press 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32957/
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description While previous research on the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue attitudes and their party support emphasize citizens’ issue positions, political competition revolves equally around issue salience, i.e., debates over which issue areas political parties should prioritize. Using multi-wave panel survey da¬ta from Germany and Great Britain, we analyze the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue salience and their party support, and we conclude that citizens’ issue priorities both influence and are influenced by their party attachments, and, moreover, that these effects are linked to parties’ long-term associa¬tive issue ownership. This effect is strongest among supporters of a small issue-orientated niche par¬ty, the German Greens.
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spelling nottingham-329572020-05-04T17:47:39Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32957/ The micro-foundations of party competition and issue ownership: the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue salience and party attachments Neundorf, Anja Adams, James While previous research on the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue attitudes and their party support emphasize citizens’ issue positions, political competition revolves equally around issue salience, i.e., debates over which issue areas political parties should prioritize. Using multi-wave panel survey da¬ta from Germany and Great Britain, we analyze the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue salience and their party support, and we conclude that citizens’ issue priorities both influence and are influenced by their party attachments, and, moreover, that these effects are linked to parties’ long-term associa¬tive issue ownership. This effect is strongest among supporters of a small issue-orientated niche par¬ty, the German Greens. Cambridge University Press 2016-04-06 Article PeerReviewed Neundorf, Anja and Adams, James (2016) The micro-foundations of party competition and issue ownership: the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue salience and party attachments. British Journal of Political Science . ISSN 1469-2112 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=10258830&fileId=S0007123415000642 doi:10.1017/S0007123415000642 doi:10.1017/S0007123415000642
spellingShingle Neundorf, Anja
Adams, James
The micro-foundations of party competition and issue ownership: the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue salience and party attachments
title The micro-foundations of party competition and issue ownership: the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue salience and party attachments
title_full The micro-foundations of party competition and issue ownership: the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue salience and party attachments
title_fullStr The micro-foundations of party competition and issue ownership: the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue salience and party attachments
title_full_unstemmed The micro-foundations of party competition and issue ownership: the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue salience and party attachments
title_short The micro-foundations of party competition and issue ownership: the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue salience and party attachments
title_sort micro-foundations of party competition and issue ownership: the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue salience and party attachments
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