Knowledge and partisan bias: An uneasy relationship

East European Politics and Societies

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 836-862

  Tworzecki, Hubert ^a   Markowski, Radosław ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for the Study of Democracy University of Social Sciences and Humanities   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Misinformation; Partisanship; Poland; Political knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911876301     PISSN: 08883254     EISSN: 15338371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0888325414535626     Document Type: Article

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