Getting Personal? The Impact of Social Media on Preferential Voting

Political Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 215-234

  Spierings, Niels ^a   Jacobs, Kristof ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Communication; Political; Political parties; Preference voting; Social media; Twitter; Voting behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894290028     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-013-9228-2     Document Type: Article

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