corruption scandals in the Italian Regional Health Systems by two important national newspapers having opposite ideology, La … find any evidence of the existence of neither an electoral cycle, nor an ideological bias in the coverage of corruption …We investigate the existence of an "electoral cycle bias" in the timing of media coverage of news with high political …

This paper analyzes the role of political discussion during the 2008 election campaign with a special focus on how …

elections is 28.5% higher thanin the election year and this increase is mainly financed with new debt and sales of publicassets …