Timeless Strategy Meets New Medium: Going Negative on Congressional Campaign Web Sites, 2002-2006

Political Communication

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 88-103

  Druckman, James N ^a   Kifer, Martin J ^a   Michael, Parkin ^a  

^a Northwest ern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Campaigns; Candidate Web sites; Internet; Negative campaigning; New media

Indexed keywords

EID: 75949120248     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584600903502607     Document Type: Article

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