Elite Domination of Public Doubts About Climate Change (Not Evolution)

Political Communication

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 306-326

  Tesler, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; elite domination; evolution; opinion change

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032832970     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2017.1380092     Document Type: Article

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