Two levels of campaigning: An empirical test of the party-centred theory of professionalisation

Political Studies

Volumn 62, Issue S1, 2014, Pages 20-41

  Tenscher, Jens ^a,b   Mykkänen, Juri ^c  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Comparison; Election campaigning; Political communication; Political parties; Professionalisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891762855     PISSN: 00323217     EISSN: 14679248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.12104     Document Type: Article

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