Partisan Priorities How Issue Ownership Drives and Distorts American Politics

Name: Partisan Priorities How Issue Ownership Drives and Distorts American Politics
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ISBN: 9781107617278

ISBN-10: 1107617278

ISBN-13: 9781107617278

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Authors: Patrick J. Egan

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Americans consistently name Republicans as the party better at handling issues like national security and crime, while they trust Democrats on issues like education and the environment - a phenomenon called "issue ownership." Partisan Priorities investigates the origins of issue ownership, showing that in fact the parties deliver neither superior performance nor popular policies on the issues they "own." Rather, Patrick J. Egan finds that Republicans and Democrats simply prioritize their owned issues with lawmaking and government spending when they are in power. Since the parties tend to be particularly ideologically rigid on the issues they own, politicians actually tend to ignore…

Book details

List price: $37.95
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Nathaniel Persily is Professor of Law & Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Jack Citrin is Professor of Political Science at UC-Berkeley. Patrick Egan is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at UC-Berkeley.