Partisan Priorities

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Partisan Priorities

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ISBN: 9781107042582
author: Patrick J. Egan
publishing house: Cambridge University Press
publication date: 2013 -10
number of pages: 236

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How Issue Ownership Drives and Distorts American Politics

Patrick J. Egan   

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Patrick J. Egan is Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Policy at New York University. He is co-editor of Public Opinion and Constitutional Controversy (with Nathaniel Persily and Jack Citrin, 2008). Partisan Priorities is based on his dissertation, which won the Carl Albert Award for best dissertation in legislative studies from the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association. In 2012, Professor Egan won the NYU Golden Dozen Award in recognition for his outstanding contribution to learning in the classroom. Before entering academia, he served as an Assistant Deputy Mayor of Policy and Planning in the office of Philadelphia mayor Edward Rendell.

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Frontmatter
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 - Introduction
2 - Consensus Issues
3 - The Meaning and Measure of Issue Ownership
4 - Ruling Out the Policy and Performance Hypotheses
5 - Partisan Priorities
6 - How Issue Ownership Distorts American Politics
7 - Conclusion
References
Index

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