Party bias in political-advertising processing-results from an experiment involving the 1998 taipei mayoral election

Journal of Advertising

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 55-67

  Chang, Chingching ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 2442448288     PISSN: 00913367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00913367.2003.10639129     Document Type: Article

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