Hesitation Blues: Does Minority Opinion Status Lead to Delayed Responses?

Communication Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 287-307

  Huge, Michael E ^a   Glynn, Carroll J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

political discussion; political networks; public opinion; spiral of silence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876965365     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650211435505     Document Type: Article

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