Balanced or Biased? Interest Groups and Legislative Lobbying in the European News Media

Political Communication

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 453-474

  De Bruycker, Iskander ^a   Beyers, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

European Union; interest groups; legislative politics; media attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938557444     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2014.958259     Document Type: Article

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