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The Role of Mass Media in Elections: What Can We Learn from 1988?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2015

Holli A. Semetko
Holli A. Semetko*
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University of Michigan
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Essays on the 1988 Elections
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The Political Science Teacher , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , Summer 1988 , pp. 16 - 19
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1988

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