Election Campaigns, Issue Focus and Voting Intentions: Survey Experiments of N orwegian Voters

This article investigates whether and how changes in issue focus in election campaigns affect voting intention, even if no preference change takes place, and whether such effects vary systematically across different groups of voters. Evidence is reported from two survey experiments of N orwegian vot...

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