Competing for attention: Information subsidy influence in agenda building during election campaigns

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 545-562

  Kiousis, Spiro ^a   Kim, Soo Yeon ^a   McDevitt, Michael ^b   Ostrowski, Ally ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISING; ELECTION; INFORMATION; MASS MEDIA; NATIONAL POLITICS;

EID: 73849135287     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769900908600306     Document Type: Article

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