The Media and Democracy: Beyond Myths and Stereotypes

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 6, Issue , 2003, Pages 139-160

  Graber, Doris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Content analysis data; First Amendment assumptions; Marketplace of ideas; Ownership patterns; Participatory citizenship

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242473007     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.6.121901.085707     Document Type: Review

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