Coercive and face-threatening questions to left-wing and right-wing politicians during two Italian broadcasts: Conversational indexes of par conditio for democracy systems

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1179-1210

  Gnisci, Augusto ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

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EID: 42149187278     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: 15591816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2008.00344.x     Document Type: Article

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