Partisan Media Exposure and Attitudes Toward the Opposition

Political Communication

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 565-581

  Levendusky, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

media effects; partisan media; social identity theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886430290     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2012.737435     Document Type: Article

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