Assessing stability in the patterns of selection bias in newspaper coverage of protest during the transition from communism in Belarus

Mobilization

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-146

  McCarthy, John D ^a   Titarenko, Larissa ^b   McPhail, Clark ^b   Rafail, Patrick S ^b   Augustyn, Boguslaw ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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