The Micro-Foundations of Party Competition and Issue Ownership: The Reciprocal Effects of Citizens’ Issue Salience and Party Attachments
Year: 2016
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: While previous research on the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue attitudes and their party support emphasize citizens’ issuepositions, political competition revolves equally around issuesalience– that is, debates over which issue areas political parties should prioritize. Using multi-wave panel survey data from Germany and Great Britain, this study analyzes the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue salience and their party support, and concludes that citizens’ issue priorities bothinfluenceandare influenced bytheir party attachments and, moreover, that these effects are linked to parties’ long-term associative issue ownership. This effect is strongest among supporters of a small issue-orientated niche party, the German Greens.
Authors: Anja Neundorf, James Adams
Institutions: University of Nottingham, University of California, Davis
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3125571891