Access to party positions and preference formation: A field experiment

Swiss Political Science Review

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-91

  Schläpfer, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Contingent valuation; Heuristic processing; Preference formation; Referendum; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960875860     PISSN: 14247755     EISSN: 16626370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1662-6370.2011.02004.x     Document Type: Article

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