Issue Ownership Revisited: Public Opinion, Partisanship, and Sex Crimes

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Brief Overview

We argue that the concept of issue ownership should be disaggregated. We use candidate statements and original polling data to demonstrate that Democrats "own" the issue of sex crimes.

Authors

• Theodore J. Masthay, DeSales University

• Kenneth Bryant, The University of Texas at Tyler