Explaining media and congressional attention to global climate change, 1969-2005: An empirical test of agenda-setting theory

Political Research Quarterly

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 405-419

  Liu, Xinsheng ^a   Lindquist, Eric ^a   Vedlitz, Arnold ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agenda setting; climate change; Congress; global warming; issue attention; news media

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956370152     PISSN: 10659129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1065912909346744     Document Type: Article

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