"I’m not owned!” Unpacking competence, preferences, and priorities in issue ownership

• In Event: Measure Twice, Cut Once: Improving Measures of Attitudes

Brief Overview

Using a question-wording experiment with 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