Focus groups and political marketing: Science and democracy as axiomatic?

British Journal of Politics and International Relations

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 122-137

  Savigny, Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; POLITICAL ORGANIZATION; POLITICAL PROCESS;

EID: 33846010507     PISSN: 13691481     EISSN: 1467856X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-856X.2007.00253.x     Document Type: Article

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