corruption scandals in the Italian Regional Health Systems by two important national newspapers having opposite ideology, La …

access improves her re-election probability only if coverage is sufficiently credible in the eyes of the public. Information …

accountability of politicians. We study this in the context of Canada, where until 1958, competition in television markets was … suppressed-Canadians received either public or private television content, but never both. While public television provided … national-level informational content, private television content was distinctly local and more politically relevant to voters …

This study uses data from the 2005-10 British Election Panel Study to examine the effect of media coverage on voter … evaluations of the incumbent government following the 2007-8 financial crisis. By combining sentiment analysis of newspaper … content with an instrumental variables approach, I show that newspapers' coverage of these events influenced how their readers …