The instrumental voter goes to the newsagent: Demand for information, marginality and the media

Journal of Theoretical Politics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 249-276

  Larcinese, Valentino ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

British elections; Information acquisition; Mass media; Media bias; Rational ignorance

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250192591     PISSN: 09516298     EISSN: 14603667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0951629807077569     Document Type: Article

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