Normalising or Equalising Party Competition? Assessing the Impact of the Web on Election Campaigning

Political Studies

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 529-547

  Gibson, Rachel K ^a   Mcallister, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Campaigning; Digital; Internet; Normalisation; Political parties

Indexed keywords

EID: 84936176075     PISSN: 00323217     EISSN: 14679248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.12107     Document Type: Article

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