The professionals speak: Practitioners’ perspectives on professional election campaigning

European Journal of Communication

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 95-119

  Tenscher, Jens ^a   Koc Michalska, Karolina ^b   Lilleker, Darren G ^c   Mykkänen, Juri ^d   Walter, Annemarie S ^e   Findor, Andrej ^f   Jalali, Carlos ^g   Róka, Jolán ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b SCIENCES PO   (France)

^c BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^h Sumy State University   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Comparison; electoral campaigning; European Union; political parties; professionalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962723117     PISSN: 02673231     EISSN: 14603705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267323115612212     Document Type: Article

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