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The consolidation of selected approaches to the study of foreign policy : a theoretical and empirical analysis
No full textThis thesis has as its starting point the fact that there is a dire need to consolidate the literature of policy analysis relevant to foreign affairs in order that the effectiveness of the analytical tools produced by that literature can be maximised. Arising from this is the question of what kinds of policy analysis - suggestive, predictive, explanatory, prescriptive etc. - might a consolidated research framework facilitate?Selected major research approaches are explained and dissected in depth in order to decide which aspects of the literature are worth consolidating. Simultaneously, they are examined closely with regard to the conclusions that each suggests about the kinds of policy analysis that might be practicably possible. Overall conclusions concerning this question are then drawn (on the basis of the cumulative analysis of its various aspects that has taken place) in order to decide the range of functions that a consolidated research framework (CRF) might be hoped to perform. Finally, those parts of the literature of policy analysis judged to be worth combining in a CRF are brought together in a flexible framework that is designed for ease of use.The CRF is then tested with regard to its ability to facilitate purely explanatory analysis. This is done via two case studies, one of the American policy making process with regard to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, and one of the British policy making process with regard to the Attlee government's decision to develop atomic weapons. A comparative study is carried out involving the CRF and the major alternative policy analysis frameworks that have previously been applied to these case studies. By demonstrating a number of advantages of the CRF over the latter, its usefulness as a research tool is established. (D80999)</p
Anderson, Peter J. (2015). Seneca: selected dialogues and consolations. Indianapolis; Cambridge, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Full text linkAnderson, Peter J. (2015). Seneca: selected dialogues and consolations. Indianapolis; Cambridge, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.Anderson, Peter J. (2015). Seneca: selected dialogues and consolations. Indianapolis; Cambridge, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.Anderson, Peter J. (2015). Seneca: selected dialogues and consolations. Indianapolis; Cambridge, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.Anderson, Peter J. (2015). Seneca: selected dialogues and consolations. Indianapolis; Cambridge, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.Anderson, Peter J. (2015). Seneca: selected dialogues and consolations. Indianapolis; Cambridge, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc
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
Defining and measuring quality in relation to developed, intermediate and developing world journalism
No full textDispelling 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
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