Below the radar? Online campaigning at the local level in the 2010 election

Political Communication in Britain: The Leader's Debates, the Campaign and the Media in the 2010 General Election

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 218-237

  Southern, Rosalynd ^a   Ward, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230305045     Document Type: Chapter

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