Retrospective and prospective performance assessments during the 2004 election campaign: Tests of mediation and news media priming

Political Behavior

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 249-278

  Malhotra, Neil ^a   Krosnick, Jon A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2004 election; Mediation; News media priming; Presidential approval; Retrospective voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248595890     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-007-9027-8     Document Type: Article

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