Collateral Damage: Involvement and the Effects of Negative Super PAC Advertising

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 510-523

  Painter, David Lynn ^a  

^a Full Sail University   (United States)

Author keywords

affective effects; Barack Obama; involvement; Mitt Romney; negative advertising; partisanship; political talk; primary campaigns; Super PAC

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EID: 84897790244     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764213506210     Document Type: Article

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