Mediated and moderated effects of personalized political communication on political trust

Communications

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 21-45

  Otto, Lukas ^a   Maier, Michaela ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

media effects experiment; personalization; political trust; privatization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960951211     PISSN: 03412059     EISSN: 16134087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/commun-2015-0028     Document Type: Article

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