An analysis outlines the attractiveness of corporate bonds as an asset class. Returns and
default data are reviewed, and the results show that investors have been well rewarded for …

The State of California, Department of Health Care Services, proposes an experiment with
statewide copayment in the Medi-Cal program. There are only limited funds available to …

This study offers the first systematic analysis of sound bites and image bites across countries
and across time. It goes beyond traditional sound bite research by extending the scope of …

… Frank Esser is assistant professor of mass communication at the University of Missouri,
Columbia. He was assistant professor in the Institute fuer Publizistik at the University of Mainz, …

This study examines the supply of political information programming across thirteen European
broadcast systems over three decades. The cross-national and cross-temporal design …

A content analysis of 6525 randomly sampled political news stories from national, regional
and weekly newspapers in six western countries between 1960 and today examines to which …

During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have
changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information …

… This chapter draws on a standardized measure of negativity developed by Esser and
colleagues (2012), consisting of four highly related dimensions: negative tonality, focus on conflict, …

This chapter deals with a substantialist understanding of agency, which predominates in
Childhood Studies. In the recent past, this key concept has come up against its limits within …

This paper examines diversity in online news with special attention paid to the role of different
types of media ownership (meso level) and media systems (macro level). After identifying …