Party contestation and Europe on the news agenda: The 2009 European Parliamentary Elections

Electoral Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-52

  Schuck, Andreas R T ^a   Xezonakis, Georgios ^b   Elenbaas, Matthijs ^a   Banducci, Susan A ^b   de Vreese, Claes H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Politics ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Campaign news; Europeaness; Media content analysis; Party contestation; Saliency; Visibility

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; ELECTORAL SYSTEM; EUROPEAN UNION; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EUROPE;

EID: 79952316834     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2010.09.021     Document Type: Article

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