“I’m Not Owned! I’m Not Owned!” Unpacking Competence, Preferences, and Priorities in Issue Ownership

• In Event: The Evolving Faces, Stereotypes, and Issues of the Parties

Brief Overview

Using a question-wording experiment with over 40 salient issues in American politics, we pit alternative explanations of issue ownership mechanisms in the minds of voters against one another

Authors

• Stephen N Goggin, San Diego State University

• John Henderson, Yale University