Facts Versus Perceptions: Who Reports Disagreement During Deliberation and Are the Reports Accurate?

Political Communication

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 299-318

  Wojcieszak, Magdalena ^a   Price, Vincent ^b  

^a IE UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

deliberation; objective disagreement; online discussions; perceptual accuracy; political disagreement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864656231     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2012.694984     Document Type: Article

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