The effects of network expertise and biases on vote choice

Political Communication

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 44-58

  Ryan, John Barry ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information; Social networks; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 75949088429     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584600903481893     Document Type: Article

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