The conceptual complexity of Presidents Carter and Clinton: An automated content analysis of temporal stability and source bias

Political Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 587-596

  Dille, Brian ^a   Young, Michael D ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Social Science Automation Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated content analysis; Bill Clinton; Conceptual complexity; Jimmy Carter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034257344     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0162-895X.00206     Document Type: Article

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