| ID | 090251 |
| Title Proper | Content of political participation |
| Other Title Information | letters to the editor and the people who write them |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Cooper, Christopher ; Knotts, H Gibbs ; Haspel, Moshe |
| Publication | 2009. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Letters to the editor are an important but poorly understood form of voluntary political participation. To learn more about the content of letters to the editor and the characteristics of the people who write them we conducted a content analysis of 1,415 randomly selected printed letters from eight newspapers from 2002 to 2005. We also matched the letter writers from our sample to demographic and political information contained in a state voterfile. |
| `In' analytical Note | Political Science and Politics Vol. 42, No. 1; Jan 2009: p. 131-137 |
| Journal Source | Political Science and Politics Vol. 42, No. 1; Jan 2009: p. 131-137 |
| Key Words | Political Participation ; Content Analysis ; Data and Methods ; Election |