Issue Ownership,Issue Positions,and Candidate Assessment

I argue that citizens alter their views of candidates’ ideological and issue positions in response to two kinds of information cues: issue ownership and issue position cues. Issue ownership cues associate a candidate with the party that owns the issue discussed by a candidate. Issue position cues associate a candidate with the party that is linked to the position that the candidate discusses. These cues can either lead citizens to view the candidate as more or less extreme—both in terms of ideological and issue position assessments—than that candidate’s party. When both types of cues are present, citizens should ignore the issue ownership cues in favor of the easier-to-process issue position cues. Evidence from a survey experiment embedded in the 2010 Cooperative Congressional Election Study provides strong support for this theory and suggests that issue ownership can convey positional information.     

巴勒斯坦问题是中东问题的核心

当代中东问题 ,是指以色列同阿拉伯人之间 ,以及一些阿拉伯国家之间的矛盾和冲突。这些冲突 ,几乎都是由以色列同巴勒斯坦的阿拉伯人的冲突引起的。１９７５年１１月 ,联合国大会宣布犹太复国主义为种族主义的同时 ,还设立了一个委员会 ,负责拟出实施巴勒斯坦阿拉伯人民政治权利的方案。一年后 ,委员会提出报告 ,其中有这样的断语 :“巴勒斯坦问题是中东问题的核心” ;若不充分考虑巴勒斯坦人民的愿望 ,中东问题的解决是不可想象的。①美国国务院和一些阿拉伯国家领导人中 ,也有人说过同样的话。何以有此论断？这可以用历史事实来回答。一现…