Election campaigns as information campaigns: Who learns what and does it matter?

Political Communication

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 229-248

  Nadeau, Richard ^a   Nevitte, Neil ^b   Gidengil, Elisabeth ^c   Blais, Andre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electoral campaigns; Information gains; Knowledge gap; Media coverage; Voting choices

Indexed keywords

EID: 48849092185     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584600802197269     Document Type: Article

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