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Right to dignity and the Supreme Court
No full textA thorough investigation of the term dignity and how it applies to the Supreme Court. By tracing different understandings of dignity from Aquinas to Kant, we can begin to define dignity. Kant's definition, like many Enlightenment ideas, had a significant impact on the Framers. The Supreme Court has provided models from the past to investigate and discover that there is a need for a "right to dignity" and the right does indeed exist. In today's court, the "right to dignity" is an individual's endowment to not have to follow a law that has meaning other than morality, since that individual has every ability to ponder his own morality. But "the right to dignity" could evolve and if it follows Justice Brennan's views one day it could mean that the "right to dignity" is the protection the individual is guaranteed from laws or government action with no purpose or externality small enough to not be worth infraction of rights
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Modern president: Imperial or imperiled?
No full textArthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s Imperial Presidency (1973) and Richard Neustadt's Presidential Powers (1960) are two of the most influential works on the presidency. These two classic works serve as the foundations for this essay that examine the presidency after September 11, 2001. After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the presidency saw a rise in its power to control the foreign policy arena and operate with relative autonomy from Congress. Some scholars, journalist, and political observers believed this rise in power to be a resurrection of the imperial presidency.This paper examines what the imperial presidency was by reviewing the Johnson and Nixon administrations. Their strengths and weaknesses are highlighted. Then the presidencies of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump are reviewed in a similar manner. This paper emphasizes that their strengths may be similar at times, but so are their weakness. For the 21st century presidents, their strengths are not as significant and their weakness are much greater.This paper argues that the post 9/11 presidency is weaker due to the increasing public distrust in the government and transformations in the media. The post 9/11 presidency has a much more difficult time operating in secrecy due to transformations in the media. This is compounded by a widespread distrust in the government resulting from Watergate. The general distrust in the public and scandals that are able to be exposed hurt the president's prestige and reputation. Often, threats they face do not lead to congressional consent and as the 9/11 becomes more distant, so do the powers that made them appear to be comparable to former presidencies
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Textbook case
Get PDFIf holding a faculty position in a political science department makes one officially a political scientist, I have been one since the Fall of 1976. That is when I joined the Department at Oklahoma State University. I have taught a lot of courses during this time, and since one of them has always been the survey course (with its typically higher enrollment); I have taught a lot of students
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
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