Special Issue: Issue Ownership: How the Public Links Parties to Issues and Why It Matters

The contents of this speciall issue of the West European Politics are:

+ Introduction: Issue Ownership
Jonas Lefevere, Anke Tresch & Stefaan Walgrave

+ Issue Emphases, Saliency Theory and Issue Ownership: A Historical and Conceptual Analysis
Ian Budge

+ The Conceptualisation and Measurement of Issue Ownership
Stefaan Walgrave, Anke Tresch & Jonas Lefevere

+ Negative Issue Ownership
Markus Wagner & Thomas M. Meyer

+ Changing Issue Ownership through Policy Communication
Stefan Dahlberg & Johan Martinsson

+ Conforming to the Dominant Discourse: Framing Distance and Multiparty Competition
Marc van de Wardt

+ The Effect of Associative Issue Ownership on Parties’ Presence in the News Media
Wouter van der Brug & Joost Berkhout

+ Associative Issue Ownership as a Determinant of Voters’ Campaign Attention
Jonas Lefevere, Anke Tresch & Stefaan Walgrave

+ ssue Ownership of the Economy: Cross-Time Effects on Vote Choice
Éric Bélanger & Richard Nadeau