Surviving Information Overload: How Elite Politicians Select Information

Governance

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 229-244

  Walgrave, Stefaan ^a   Dejaeghere, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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EID: 84968661792     PISSN: 09521895     EISSN: 14680491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gove.12209     Document Type: Article

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