Cascading Corruption News: Explaining the bias of media attention to Brazil's political scandals

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Cascading Corruption News : Explaining the bias of media attention to Brazil's political scandals. / Damgaard, Mads.

In: Opiniao Publica, Vol. 24, No. 1, 01.01.2018, p. 114-143.

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Harvard

Damgaard, M 2018, 'Cascading Corruption News: Explaining the bias of media attention to Brazil's political scandals', Opiniao Publica, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 114-143. <https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/op/article/view/8652281/17935>

APA

Damgaard, M. (2018). Cascading Corruption News: Explaining the bias of media attention to Brazil's political scandals. Opiniao Publica, 24(1), 114-143. https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/op/article/view/8652281/17935

Vancouver

Damgaard M. Cascading Corruption News: Explaining the bias of media attention to Brazil's political scandals. Opiniao Publica. 2018 Jan 1;24(1):114-143.

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Damgaard, Mads. / Cascading Corruption News : Explaining the bias of media attention to Brazil's political scandals. In: Opiniao Publica. 2018 ; Vol. 24, No. 1. pp. 114-143.

Bibtex

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