Issue Ownership and the Vote: The Effects of Associative and Competence Ownership on Issue Voting

摘要: Parties often are associated with specific issues. They can “own” an issue when they develop a reputation of competence and attention in that domain. While there is much aggregate-level evidence on the relation between salience party results, individual-level mechanisms less well understood. This paper develops model ownership effects. It suggests distinguishing two aspects ownership: which considered to care most about given issue, have best solutions The both different When voters’ preferences corresponding should larger impact evaluation owner. But be competent domain, effect spatial distances decrease. These hypotheses tested statistical allows voter-party utilities vary across parties data from 2011 Swiss election study.