Negative issue ownership

Autor(en)

Markus Wagner, Thomas Meyer

Abstrakt

Existing research considers issue ownership to be a positive attribute of political parties, which are seen as 'owning' those policy areas where they are particularly competent and engaged. However, for some citizens a party may also be a negative issue owner if it has a particularly bad reputation for its handling of an issue. This article describes and explains aggregate and individual-level patterns of negative issue ownership using a survey-based measure of handling perceptions from the 2013 Austrian National Election Study (n = 3,266). Naming a particular party as a negative issue owner is affected by partisanship, but also by policy preferences and government performance evaluations. The effects of issue importance vary across issues. These findings lay the groundwork for more research on negative attributions of issue ownership and their empirical consequences on vote choice.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Staatswissenschaft

Journal

West European Politics

Band

38

Seiten

797-816

Anzahl der Seiten

20

ISSN

0140-2382

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2015.1039380

Publikationsdatum

2015

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

506014 Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Political Science and International Relations

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/negative-issue-ownership(25f1a194-68ec-47df-b2c5-932d017aba66).html