Winning coverage in the U.S. Senate

Political Communication

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 377-391

  Sellers, Patrick J ^a   Schaffner, Brian F ^b  

^a DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Congress; Journalism; News media; Political communication; Senate

Indexed keywords

EID: 36949001131     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584600701641516     Document Type: Article

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