Political communications in democratic Taiwan: The relationship between politicians and journalists

Political Communication

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 323-340

  Rawnsley, Gary ^a   Gong, Qian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commercialism; Journalist; Knowledge deficit; New democracy; Political communication; Politician; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961147421     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2011.572462     Document Type: Article

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