Lessons from the virtual Agora project: The effects of agency, identity, information, and deliberation on political knowledge

Journal of Public Deliberation

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-37

  Muhlberger, Peter ^a   Weber, Lori M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deliberation; Deliberative polling; Human agency; Identity; Online discussion; Political knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646572197     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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