The Randomness of Issue Ownership: How external shocks drive public perception of party competence

• In Event: Citizen Perceptions and Political Institutions in Democracy

Brief Overview

I theorize that issue ownership is largely driven by random, focusing events. Leveraging the randomness of respondents' interview date to estimate the causal effect of the Fukushima disaster on public perceptions of party competence.

Author

• Daniel Bischof, University of Zurich