The economy is so powerful in determining the results of US presidential elections that
political scientists can predict winners and losers with amazing accuracy long before the …

Using decades of public opinion data from the US, UK, Australia, Germany and Canada, and
distinguishing between three concepts-issue ownership, performance and generalised …

Why do political parties prioritise some policy issues over others? While the issue ownership
theory suggests that parties emphasise policy issues on which they have an advantage in …

Why and how do candidates choose the issues on which their campaigns are based?
Drawing on a large database of candidate advertisements from the 1998 House and Senate …

The battle for public opinion in the Islamic world is an ongoing priority for US diplomacy. The
current debate over why many Muslims hold anti-American views revolves around whether …

How do voters make decisions in low-information elections? How distinctive are these voting
decisions? Traditional approaches to the study of voting and elections often fail to address …

Most campaigns do not revolve around policy commitments; instead, we think of campaigns
as contests in which candidates spend time, energy, and money to win. This paper develops …

Do issues matter? This article extends recent research on issue voting and campaign
agenda-setting to voting decisions in congressional elections. We use a unique data set that …

This effort seeks to expand our understanding of the supply-side of the campaign process by
investigating how candidate competition for agenda control affects occurrences of issue …

When the US Supreme Court announces a decision, reporters simplify and dramatize the
complex legal issues by highlighting dissenting opinions and thus emphasizing conflict …