The Effects of Negative Political Campaigns: A Meta-Analytic Reassessment

The conventional wisdom about negative political campaigning holds that it works, i.e., it has the consequences its practitioners intend. Many observers also fear that negative campaigning has unintended but detrimental effects on the political system itself. An earlier meta-analytic assessment of t...

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Published in:The Journal of politics 2007-11, Vol.69 (4), p.1176-1209
Main Authors: Lau, Richard R., Sigelman, Lee, Rovner, Ivy Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Campaign literature
Effectiveness
Efficacy
Elections
Emotions
Fear & phobias
Government
Meta-analysis
Null hypothesis
Political Campaigns
Political candidates
Political science
Political systems
Politics
Public opinion
Sample size
Sampling errors
Statistical significance
Trust
Voter behavior
Voter turnout
Voters
Voting
Wisdom
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