A communicative action approach to evaluating citizen support for a government's smoking policies

Journal of Communication

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1153-1174

  Chang, Leanne ^a   Jacobson, Thomas L ^b   Zhang, Weiyu ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION PLAN; COMMUNICATION; DEMOCRACY; GOVERNMENT RELATIONS; POLICY MAKING; POLITICAL SYSTEM; SMOKING;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 84897066309     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: 14602466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jcom.12065     Document Type: Article

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