Perpetuating the Myth of the Culture War Court? Issue Attention in Newspaper Coverage of U.S. Supreme Court Nominations

American Politics Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1026-1066

  Evans, Michael ^a   Pearson Merkowitz, Shanna ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

abortion; content analysis; culture war; media coverage; supreme court

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868093522     PISSN: 1532673X     EISSN: 15523373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532673X12452663     Document Type: Article

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