Dr. Phil Meets the candidates: How family life and personal experience produce political discussions

Critical Studies in Media Communication

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 322-338

  Van Zoonen, Liesbet ^a   Muller, Floris ^a   Alinejad, Donya ^a   Dekker, Martijn ^a   Duits, Linda ^a   Vis, Pauline Van Romondt ^a   Wittenberg, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Candidates; Deliberation; Personalization; Politics; Popular Culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 36949014938     PISSN: 15295036     EISSN: 14795809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07393180701560849     Document Type: Article

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