Media Effects on Politicians: An Individual-Level Political Agenda-Setting Experiment

International Journal of Press/Politics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 233-252

  Helfer, Luzia ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

media effects; parliament; political agenda setting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960360631     PISSN: 19401612     EISSN: 19401620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1940161215627461     Document Type: Article

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