A tale of two e-parties: Candidate websites in the 2008 US presidential primaries

Party Politics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 19-40

  Vaccari, Cristian ^a  

^a Facoltà di Scienze Politiche 'Roberto Ruffilli'   (Italy)

Author keywords

candidate websites; Internet and elections; Internet politics; online campaigning; US 2008 presidential primaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871350463     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068810391287     Document Type: Article

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