Priming the parish pump: Political marketing and news management in local political communications networks

Journal of Political Marketing

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 117-147

  Franklin, Bob ^a   Richardson, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

General Elections; Local journalism; Local political marketing; Party media relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937386355     PISSN: 15377857     EISSN: 15377865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J199v01n01_07     Document Type: Article

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