Partisan Priorities: How Issue Ownership Drives and Distorts American Politics

by Patrick Egan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107617278
• ISBN13: 9781107617278
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"