Negative campaigning

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 12, Issue , 2009, Pages 285-306

  Lau, Richard R ^a   Rovner, Ivy Brown ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attack advertising; Demobilization; Meta analysis; Negativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 69049085930     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.10.071905.101448     Document Type: Article

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