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Institutionelle Reformen zur Friedenskonsolidierung
Full text linkAm 19. September 2012 veröffentlichte die Bundesregierung im Zusammenhang mit einer Strategie der Krisenprävention ressortübergreifende Leitlinien für eine kohärente Politik gegenüber fragilen Staaten. Darin gibt sie das Ziel aus, Staatlichkeit durch "institutionalisierte und rechtlich abgesicherte Mechanismen der gleichberechtigten politischen Teilhabe" zu fördern. Wissenschaftler, Diplomaten und Entwicklungspolitiker gehen zumeist davon aus, dass institutionelle Reformen zur Friedenskonsolidierung in Nachkriegsgesellschaften beitragen können. Es bleibt jedoch unklar, unter welchen Bedingungen solche Reformen Erfolg haben. Eine Analyse institutioneller Reformen in 18 Nachkriegsstaaten in den Bereichen territoriale Staatsstruktur, Wahl- und Parteiensysteme, Regierungssysteme, Sicherheitssektor und Justiz in den Jahren von 2000 bis 2005 deutet auf folgende Ergebnisse hin: Nationale und internationale Akteure müssen bei den Reformen die Wechselwirkungen der Institutionen untereinander und das gesamte "Konzert" der Institutionen berücksichtigen. Viel zu selten wird beachtet, dass Reformen in unterschiedlichen Politikbereichen sich gegenseitig widersprechen können oder zusammen eine Wirkung entfalten, die immer die gleichen "Reformverlierer" hervorbringt - das kann einen notwendigen Elitenkonsens untergraben. Reformüberlastung aufgrund vieler gleichzeitig reformierter Institutionen kann die Friedenskonsolidierung gefährden. Für den Erfolg institutioneller Reformen ist über die reine Festlegung in Friedensabkommen und/oder Verfassungen hinaus ihre effektive Umsetzung notwendig
In Search of Legitimacy in Post-revolutionary China: Bringing Ideology and Governance Back In
Full text linkThe contemporary politics of China reflect an ongoing effort by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to claim the right to rule in light of the consequences of economic development, international pressures, and historical change. China stands out within the Asian region for the success the regime has achieved in this effort. By focusing on the changes in China’s elite discourse during the reform period and particularly during the last decade, this paper aims to elaborate on the relative importance of various sources of legitimacy as they shift over time, as well as on their inherent dilemmas and limitations. There is evidence of an agile, responsive, and creative party effort to relegitimate the postrevolutionary regime through economic performance, nationalism, ideology, culture, governance, and democracy. At the same time, the paper identifies a clear shift in emphasis from an earlier economic-nationalistic approach to a more ideological-institutional approach.regime legitimacy, China, Chinese Communist Party, performance, nationalism, ideology, culturalism, governance, democracy
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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