Influence of issue decision salience on vote choice: Linking agenda setting, priming, and issue ownership

International Journal of Communication

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3347-3368

  Kiousis, Spiro ^a   Strömback, Jesper ^b   Mcdevitt, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Agenda setting; Issue ownership; Priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011598956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19328036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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