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Navigating Ideational Dynamics: Actor-Policy Interactions in the Implementation of Indonesia's Higher Education Reform
No full textThis thesis explores the diversity of actors' ideas, beliefs, and traditions in influencing and shaping their implementation of public policies. Drawing on the experience of higher education reform in Indonesia between 1999 and 2019, this thesis illuminates the intricate nature of actor-policy interactions by asking: how do actors' held beliefs and traditions shape their responses to 'new' ideas propagated by policies? And what do these interpretations and actions mean for policy implementation? This thesis uses an interpretive approach to explore academics' interpretations of a series of regulatory changes intended to shape their behaviour.
This study demonstrates that the implementation of research-related policies in Indonesian higher education constitutes complex actor-policy ideational interactions that might not always be goal-oriented endeavours but also expressive acts. Central to these interactions are dilemmas that might arise from individual academics' ideational and institutional contexts. Facilitated by their 'situated' agency, Indonesian academics' interpretations and actions in response to dilemmas may constitute diverse acts that display a degree of discord with policy intents. This thesis contends that these incongruities depict academics' improvisations to overcome institutional conflicts rather than mere acts of negligence.
Through decentred analysis, the thesis illuminates how policy implementation is an art and craft instead of a mere technocratic and structured effort. By combining the cultural approach and interpretivism, it also provides an alternative framework and methodological approach to study policy implementation. Finally, this thesis contributes to understanding the governance complexities of Indonesian higher education as one of the region's most dynamic higher education sectors
Understanding policy changes: dilemmas of funding reform in Indonesian higher education
No full textIn the interpretive tradition, the study on policy changes focuses on analyzing the shift of framework of agreed and shared meanings amongst actors. While ‘dilemmas’ offer an analytical lens to understand policy change, their application remains limited. Drawing from the experience of funding reform for research in Indonesian higher education, this article explores the meanings and ideas associated with output-based funding mechanism. Affirming the established understanding within the interpretive tradition, this article finds that a policy change is a matter of actors’ inter-subjectivity and intra-discursive reasonings. This results in a wide acceptance of the new funding mechanism. However, by conceptualizing that actors are also institutionally situated, the concept of dilemmas unveils extra-discursive tensions and conflicts that confront actors’ understanding and receptivity of change. This finding underscores the significance of combining actors’ intra- and extra-discursive contexts in enriching the interpretive analysis of socio-political events.This article draws upon my doctoral research funded by The Indonesia Endowment Funds for Education (LPDP).Peer-reviewe
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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