Issue accountability and the mass public

Legislative Studies Quarterly

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-35

  Canes Wrone, Brandice ^a   Minozzi, William ^b   Reveley, Jessica Bonney ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

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EID: 79951695459     PISSN: 03629805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-9162.2010.00002.x     Document Type: Article

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