The food crisis, mass media and the political economy of policy analysis and communication

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 409-426

  Swinnen, Johan F M ^a   Squicciarini, Pasquamaria ^a   Vandemoortele, Thijs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

bias; food prices; intergovernmental organisations; mass media; NGOs; political economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961065533     PISSN: 01651587     EISSN: 14643618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbr020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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