"Down periscope": The search for high-tech campaigning at the local level in the 2002 German federal election

Journal of E-Government

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 85-111

  Gibson, Rachel K ^a   Römmele, Andrea ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyber campaigning; Germany; High tech campaigning; Local elections; Parties; Web campaigning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746558001     PISSN: 15424049     EISSN: 15424057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J399v02n03_05     Document Type: Article

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