Sources of economic news and economic expectations

American Politics Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 759-777

  Goidel, Kirby ^a   Procopio, Stephen ^b   Terrell, Dek ^a   Denis Wu, H ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Louisiana State Government   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadcast news; Economic evaluations; Economic news; Economic voting; Elections; News media

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954224105     PISSN: 1532673X     EISSN: 15523373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532673X09355671     Document Type: Article

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