Wonks and War Rooms
Where political communication theory meets on the ground strategy. Host, Professor Elizabeth Dubois, picks a political communication theory, explains it to a practitioner, and then they have a chat about whether or not it makes sense at all out in the world of politics and communications. She chats with political staffers, journalists, comms experts, lobbyists, activists and other political actors. Elizabeth quizzes them on pol comm theory and they tell her how ridiculous (or super helpful) that theory actually is.
Wonks and War Rooms
Issue Ownership with Tiffany Gooch
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Elizabeth Dubois
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Season 1
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Episode 10
Tiffany Gooch, Principal at Aurora Strategy and activist, chats with Elizabeth about issue ownership (which, it turns out, is NOT issue management). Issue ownership is this idea that certain political parties will be perceived to be particularly credible or effective on certain issues and they can develop comms strategy based on it. But pandemics change things.
Additional Resources:
A great place to start is the academic article by Bélanger and Meguid: Issue salience, issue ownership, and issue-based vote choice.
Check out www.polcommtech.ca for annotated transcripts of this episode in English and French.
