Framing Labels and Immigration Policy Attitudes in the Iowa Caucuses: "Trying to Out-Tancredo Tancredo"

Political Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 433-454

  Knoll, Benjamin R ^a   Redlawsk, David P ^b   Sanborn, Howard ^c  

^a CENTRE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Eagleton Institute of Politics   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnic cues; Framing labels; Immigration attitudes; Iowa Caucuses

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051828318     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-010-9141-x     Document Type: Article

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