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The Micro-Foundations of Party Competition and Issue Ownership: The Reciprocal Effects of Citizens’ Issue Salience and Party Attachments

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  • Neundorf, Anja
  • Adams, James

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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 – 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 both influence and are influenced by their 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.

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  • Neundorf, Anja & Adams, James, 2018. "The Micro-Foundations of Party Competition and Issue Ownership: The Reciprocal Effects of Citizens’ Issue Salience and Party Attachments," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 48(2), pages 385-406, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:48:y:2018:i:02:p:385-406_00
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    1. Enriqueta Aragonès & Clara Ponsatí, 2021. "Shocks to Issue Salience and Electoral Competition," Working Papers 1316, Barcelona School of Economics.
    2. Enriqueta Aragonès & Clara Ponsatí, 2019. "Preference Shocks that Destroy Party Systems," Working Papers 1118, Barcelona School of Economics.
    3. Jelle Koedam, 2021. "Avoidance, ambiguity, alternation: Position blurring strategies in multidimensional party competition," European Union Politics, , vol. 22(4), pages 655-675, December.
    4. Enriqueta Aragonès & Clara Ponsatí, 2022. "Shocks to issue salience and electoral competition," Economics of Governance, Springer, vol. 23(1), pages 33-63, March.

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