Media priming in a multi-party context: A controlled naturalistic study in political communication

Political Behavior

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 115-141

  Van Der Brug, Wouter ^a   Semetko, Holli A ^b   Valkenburg, Patti M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

European Union; Media effects; Political communication; Political leaders; Priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847698552     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-006-9020-7     Document Type: Article

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