Negative campaigning by US Senate candidates

Party Politics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 69-87

  Lau, Richard R ^a   Pomper, Gerald M ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Elections; Electoral strategies; Negative campaigning; US Senate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002974798     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068801007001004     Document Type: Article

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