Stimulating or reinforcing political interest: Using panel data to examine reciprocal effects between news media and political interest

Political Communication

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-162

  Boulianne, Shelley ^a  

^a MACEWAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Internet; Political interest; Print news; Simultaneous equation modeling; Television news

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957837122     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2010.540305     Document Type: Article

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