Adjustment of issue positions based on network strategies in an election campaign: A two-mode network autoregression model with cross-nested random effects

Social Networks

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 168-177

  Kleinnijenhuis, Jan ^a   de Nooy, Wouter ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Election campaigns; Issue voting; Longitudinal design; Media; Semantic network analysis; Structural balance; Two mode networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877715006     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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