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Parliamentary behaviour of the opposition Pakatan Rakyat in Malaysian politics, 2008-2012 / Ariff Aizuddin Azlan
Get PDFThis study examines the patterns of parliamentary behaviour of Pakatan Rakyat (PR) political parties in the Twelfth Parliament. The study is based upon two significance arguments: first, the opposition Pakatan Rakyat political parties (PAS, PKR, and DAP) for the first time collectively work as a single political force in the Twelfth Parliament; and second, the patterns of behaviour would likely trigger some responses and constraints from the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) government and at the same time would consolidate the oppositional coalition politically. The 2008 Malaysia‟s general election was held under very pressurized circumstances. Unfortunately, the election result indicated that the ruling BN was no longer politically durable and thus provided a new political vacuum for the opposition PR to emerge as part of national political alternatives. This is a qualitative study and therefore it will adopt the approach of “content analysis” as a research technique. The data were collected from primary sources such as parliamentary debates (Hansards), government official documents, party‟s publications, interviews, and newspapers. As the secondary sources, books and articles were used. By using Shane Martin‟s Framework of Parliamentary and Legislative Behaviour, the study reveals that there are several PR patterns of behaviour evident in the 12th Parliament. These main and sub-patterns were manifested in the form of parliamentary struggle and were perceived as a counter-measure to the policies of the ruling BN government. Besides that, the study found that the parliamentary constraints encountered by PR have led towards the consolidation of patterns of behaviour in the Twelfth Parliament. Finally, this study concluded that the parliamentary behaviour of Pakatan Rakyat has strengthened, empowered and consolidated the practice of oppositional parliamentary democracy and the emergence of the newly coined-term known as the “New Parliamentary Behaviour (NPB)”
Pemikiran Anti-Kolonialisme Ismail Raji Al-Faruqi / Ariff Aizuddin Azlan
Get PDFUmum mengetahui bahawa kolonialisme merupakan satu sistem sosio-politik yang sekian lamanya mula diterapkan oleh golongan 'atasan' dengan justifikasi untuk menawarkan agenda peradaban yang dilihat sebagai satu simbol penyatuan yang melangkaui konteks keagamaan dan etnisiti. Hasil daripada agenda tersebut, blok penjajah memprojekkan satu imej baru di bawah nomenklatur 'pembangunan' aan proses penerapan nilai mula digerakkan untuk satu jangka masa yang agak panjang. Penjajaran kuasa juga menjadi sinonim dengan kapasiti kolonial yang dilihat seringkali menekankan elemen-elemen yang membawa kepada maksud dominasi sejagat
The opposition Pakatan Rakyat in the twelfth Malaysian parliament, 2008–12, and parliamentary behaviour on the budget process
No full textPolitik, kuasa dan pilihan raya menurut Al-Mawardi / Dr. Ariff Aizuddin Azlan
Get PDFSemenjak beberapa abad yang lalu, sarjana sains politik sama ada dari dunia Islam mahupun Barat telah berusaha keras untuk menukilkan satu bentuk integrasi epistemologi di antara konseptual masyhur seperti politik, kuasa dan pilihan raya. Perkaitan jelas yang cuba untuk dihubungkait telah berjaya diletakkan di atas peta kesarjanaan dan dijadikan sebagai rujukan utama oleh generasi-generasi seterusnya. Siapakah Al-Mawardi dan mengapakah karya beliau mempunyai nilai-nilai yang signifikan sehingga boleh dijadikan sebagai tulang belakang dalam bidang sains sosial dan sains politik Islam secara khususnya. Nama sebenar beliau ialah Ali b. Muhamad b. Habib atau lebih dikenali sebagai Abu Hasan Al-Mawardi dan dilahirkan di Basra sekitar tahun 364/974. Beliau merupakan tokoh Islam yang terkenal dalam beberapa bidang seperti sains, hadis, fiqh, perundangan, politik, pentadbiran dan sebagainya
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
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
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