Measuring issue ownership with survey questions : a question wording experiment

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serval:BIB_3AE1D896BB84
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Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
Measuring issue ownership with survey questions : a question wording experiment
Journal
Electoral Studies
Author(s)
Walgrave Stefaan, Van Camp Kirsten, Lefevere Jonas, Tresch Anke
ISSN
0261-3794
Publication state
Published
Issued date
06/2016
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
42
Pages
290-299
Language
english
Abstract
Issue ownership, which has a competence and an associative dimension, refers to the link between issues and parties in voters' minds. Although used frequently in voting research, there remain worries about the validity of its current measures. The measures may be confounded with respondents' (dis)agreement with parties' position and general party evaluations. Through a question wording experiment we compare measures of both issue ownership types and test which are most affected by the two confounding factors. We find that competence issue ownership measures are heavily affected by confounding factors while associative issue ownership wordings are less. Challenging existing research, we find that especially the classic 'best at handling'-wording tapping competence issue ownership is most conflated with positions and party preference.
Keywords
issue ownership, question wording, survey experiment
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