Whose news do you trust? explaining trust in private versus public media in africa

Political Research Quarterly

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 276-292

  Moehler, Devra C ^a   Singh, Naunihal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; democracy; freedom of the press; media ownership; media trust; political communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956341146     PISSN: 10659129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1065912909349624     Document Type: Article

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