Party Reputations, Policy Substance, and the Meaning of Party Cue Effects

• In Event: Partisanship and Policy Attitudes

Brief Overview

We argue that citizens use party cues to make inferences about policy substance by drawing on a party's policy reputation---shared knowledge of what the party stands for and whom it represents.

Authors

• Rune Slothuus, Aarhus University

• Rasmus Skytte, Aarhus University

• Martin Bisgaard, Aarhus University