Do campaign web sites really matter in electoral civic engagement? Empirical evidence from the 2004 post-election Internet tracking survey

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 190-212

  Park, Hun Myoung ^a   Perry, James L ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Campaign web sites; Deliberative engagement; Electoral civic engagement; Endogeneity; Missing data problem; Propensity score matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149174283     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: 15528286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439307309026     Document Type: Article

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