The dimensions of negative messages

American Politics Research

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 694-723

  Fridkin, Kim L ^a   Kenney, Patrick J ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Candidate evaluation; Elections; Experiments; Issue evaluation; Negative advertising; Political campaigns

Indexed keywords

EID: 49049089739     PISSN: 1532673X     EISSN: 15523373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532673X08316448     Document Type: Article

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