Thrown around with abandon? Popular understandings of populism as conveyed by the print media: A UK case study

Acta Politica

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 111-131

  Bale, Tim ^a   Van Kessel, Stijn ^a   Taggart, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

media; populism; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953213664     PISSN: 00016810     EISSN: 17411416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ap.2011.3     Document Type: Article

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