Minimal or massive? the political agenda-setting power of the mass media according to different methods

International Journal of Press/Politics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 295-313

  Van Aelst, Peter ^a   Walgrave, Stefaan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

MP survey; Political Agenda setting; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959242612     PISSN: 19401612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1940161211406727     Document Type: Article

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