Does candidates' advertising spending help winning?

Journal of Economic Policy Reform

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 201-218

  Chang, Chun Ping ^a   Lee, Chien Chiang ^b  

^a Shih Chien University Kaohsiung Campus ^*  (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Campaign spending; Logit model; Pan blue; Pan green; Political advertising; Vote shares

Indexed keywords

EID: 71549166341     PISSN: 17487870     EISSN: 17487889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17487870903105387     Document Type: Article

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