What do voters need to know?: Testing the role of cognitive information in Asian American voter mobilization

American Politics Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 254-274

  Garcća Bedolla, Lisa ^a   Michelson, Melissa R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian Americans; Field experiments; Information; Political participation; Voter mobilization; Voter turnout

Indexed keywords

EID: 59849119349     PISSN: 1532673X     EISSN: 15523373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532673X08320844     Document Type: Article

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