The Observer : Good at Observing, Less Good at Influencing?
The 1997 British General Election appeared to show a clear-cut case of the media influencing electoral behaviour. In an attempt to facilitate anti-Conservative tactical voting The Observer published the results of 16 constituency-level opinion polls. The newspaper is frequently seen as influential i...
| Publicado en: | Political Studies Vol. 49; no. 5; pp. 957 - 969 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Dec2001
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