Personalization in e-campaigning: A cross-national comparison of personalization strategies used on candidate websites of 17 countries in EP elections 2009

New Media and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 72-92

  Hermans, Liesbeth ^a   Vergeer, Maurice ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cross national comparative research; e campaigning; European elections; personalization of politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874313969     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444812457333     Document Type: Article

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