How Politicians’ Attitudes and Goals Moderate Political Agenda Setting by the Media

International Journal of Press/Politics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 431-449

  Zoizner, Alon ^a   Sheafer, Tamir ^a   Walgrave, Stefaan ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

automated content analysis; media; MPs; political agenda setting; political elites; representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029677443     PISSN: 19401612     EISSN: 19401620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1940161217723149     Document Type: Article

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