Issue ownership and government participation. Explaining parties’ issue attention at the subnational level
| Autoren/Herausgeber: |
PD Dr. Martin Gross |
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| Erschienen: | 2025 |
| Publikationsart: | Publikationen des Lehrstuhls |
Check out this new open-access publication by Svenja Krauss, Katrin Praprotnik and Martin Gross:
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13540688241306732
Abstract:
The level of attention parties devote to specific issues is one of the key factors in parties’ electoral campaign strategies.
Research so far only scarcely focused on parties’ attention towards specific issues at the subnational level—even though
some issues are primarily dealt with at this level. Building on a novel data set covering 679 regional election manifestos in Austria and Germany between 1990 and 2019, we assess the influence of party-specific and contextual factors on
subnational parties’ issue attention. More specifically, we hypothesize that a party’s national issue ownership has a positive influence on its issue attention in regional election manifestos. This effect should, however, be moderated by whether a regional party is in government at the regional and/or national level. Our results support our hypotheses: While issue ownership has a positive influence, government participation decreases this effect.
