Strategic political communication: Mobilizing public opinion in “audience democracies”

Comparing Political Communication: Theories, Cases, and Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 184-212

  Kriesi, Hanspeter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511606991.009     Document Type: Chapter

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