What Are the Sources of Political Parties' Issue Ownership? Testing Four Explanations at the Individual Level

Political Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 567-588

  Stubager, Rune ^a   Slothuus, Rune ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Issue ownership; Partisanship; Party constituencies; Performance evaluations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883761085     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-012-9204-2     Document Type: Article

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