A new sort of democracy?: The opinion pages in the Scottish daily quality press

Journalism

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 451-472

  Crawford, Ewan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Media   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deliberative democracy; Opinion pages; Public sphere; Quality press; Scotland

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249147779     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884909104951     Document Type: Article

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