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Children and families: early intervention in peoples’ life courses
No full textA core idea of the Social Investment perspective is that the future must be assured by investing in children in order to end the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage (Jenson 2009). Education has been called the vanguard of Social Investment (Deeming and Smyth 2015). Hemerijck (2002) proposes a ‘developmental’ welfare agenda for twenty-first century Europe. The concept of developmental welfare provides a common language for giving priority to guarantee high levels of employment for both men and women as a fundamental political objective, combining elements of flexibility and security, aimed at facilitating men and especially women in reconciling work and family life. The agenda implies early identification of problems through investment in services for young children, and family and child -centred interventions
Social Investment in theory and praxis: a ‘quiet revolution’ in innovative local services?
No full textThis book has presented a set of empirical evidence from ten in-depth, evaluative case studies in ten European countries. In this concluding chapter, we highlight outstanding themes from the case studies and then go on to put forward a few implications of this research intended to inform experts, stakeholders and interested readers. Nearly two decades ago, Esping Anderson and colleagues (2002) made a case for a new welfare state that in the face of heightening uncertainties would adopt a generational life course logic. An emerging Social Investment paradigm became widely acknowledged, informed EU policy (European Commission, 2013), and has been influential worldwide (Deeming and Smyth, 2017). There is now shared understanding in scholarship and policy of a Social Investment paradigm, albeit sometimes more in the form of ‘engaged discord’ (Hemerijck, 2017: 5) than thoroughgoing consensus. We begin this chapter by reminding the reader (traveller) of the main stop-over that we took him/her to visit in this book. It has been a daring journey across ten European countries (from south to north and from west to east) in order to see social innovation initiatives in the Social Investment policy framework. Thematically we followed in turn the policy domains of early interventions in the life course, active labour markets, and social solidarity. Cases were selected because, based on initial understandings of the vision of the projects and programmes, they fit with the Social Investment paradigm and literature, and because there was some evidence of innovation. Most importantly, there was the opportunity for learning
Implementing innovative social investment: Strategic lessons from Europe
No full textThe concept of a Social Investment welfare paradigm has become highly influential in public policy globally (Deeming and Smyth, 2017). At its heart lies the idea that welfare states must invest to strengthen skills and capacities, beginning in early life. Social Investment therefore refers to policies and interventions that aim to build the productive capacities of citizens (Deeming and Smyth, 2015). Typical examples include labour market activation and early years education and care (Hemerijck, 2017). According to the European Commission, ‘[S]ocial investment policies reinforce social policies that protect and stabilise by addressing some of the causes of disadvantage and giving people tools with which to improve their social situations’ (European Commission 2013: 3). Many countries – including but not limited to members states of the European Union - have adopted some elements of Social Investment although uptake is far from uniform (Bouget et al., 2015). The aim of this book is to advance empirical and conceptual insight into the Social Investment welfare paradigm from a social innovation and a sub national perspective. Drawing upon multi-national research under Horizon 2000 Societal Challenges, chapter authors offer new evidence about the regional and local realities of Social Investment policies and programmes, and original analysis informed by engagement with service users and local communities affected
Social Investment in welfare: A sub-national perspective
No full textInnovative Social Investment Strengthening Communities in Europe (INNOSI) examined innovative, implementation of Social Investment at national and sub national levels across the EU. The INNOSI consortium consisted of academic research teams and ‘impact’ partners (mainly NGOs) in ten countries, Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Spain, Italy and Greece. Research included econometric modelling to quantify the economic processes and outputs through which social innovation acts, and assessment of main policy-making trends using documents and interviews with key national experts. This book is concerned with the most substantial original empirical research from the project, which consists of in-depth, multi method case studies in ten EU countries of innovative, strategic approaches to delivering social investment policy at a sub national level
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
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