Bureaucratic Responsiveness to the News Media: Comparing the Influence of the New York Times and Network Television News Coverage on US Foreign Aid Allocations

Political Communication

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 263-285

  Van Belle, Douglas A ^a  

^a EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bureaucracies; Foreign aid; Newspaper; Television

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042261037     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584600390218896     Document Type: Article

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