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Riding the Populist Wave: Europe's Mainstream Right in Crisis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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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
Governance, not politics: the statecraft of the New Zealand Labour Party, 1990 - 2002
No full textThe study of political parties is fundamental to modern political science. A powerful but under-utilised approach to the study of political parties is that of party statecraft. In 1986 Bulpitt argued that statecraft is essentially the strategy used by a party to gain office, govern competently and retain office. Bulpitt identified four dimensions in which party statecraft is manifest; political argument hegemony, governing competence, party management and electoral strategy. Statecraft is thus concerned as much with the "how" of politics as the "why".
The recent history of the New Zealand Labour Party provides a remarkable case study in the art and development of statecraft. This thesis examines the development and implementation of a new party statecraft by the New Zealand Labour Party in the period 1990 to 2002.
In 1990 the Labour Party suffered the worst defeat in a general election in it's history. In the nine years following this defeat, the Labour Party attempted to come to terms with both the passing of their traditional ideology, and the electorate's rejection of the strategy they adopted in the 1980's. The party sought inspiration from the British Labour Party's third way project, and attempted to develop a third way party statecraft for the New Zealand context.
At the core of the third way is the notion that, in order to win office, social democratic parties should move beyond the political divisions of left and right, and embrace all of the mechanisms and strategies used by parties of the left, and the right, in order to achieve their goals. Social democratic parties should shape themselves, not as political parties, but rather as governing parties. In this way, social democratic parties are able to span both sides of the political spectrum and undercut opponents to the left and right. By "taking the politics out of politics", social democratic parties can become "the natural party of government".
The central question of this thesis is whether the third way party statecraft, which enabled Labour to win office in 1999, has enabled Labour to achieve political argument hegemony, governing competence, effective party management and a winning electoral strategy in office.
Since taking office in 1999, Labour has set the framework for, and won, political debate in New Zealand. With the adoption of the third way, and its associated language. Labour has achieved an easy predominance in political rhetoric. Though few members of the public appear to have adopted Labour's new lexicon, the substance of the language, the reconciliation of left and the right, has helped shape political debate in New Zealand. More crucially, Labour's core political argument, that globalisation has undermined the power of the state to discharge many of the functions it has previously undertaken, has enabled Labour to exclude difficult issues from the public agenda, and dismiss questions of the effectiveness of Labour's policy solutions, such as their level of funding for public services.
The third way has also enabled Labour to achieve the remaining dimensions of party statecraft. Despite some high profile arguments over Labour's new industrial relations legislation and Closing the Gaps programme, Labour has managed to develop a widespread sense of governing competence amongst the electorate.
Of the four dimensions of party statecraft, party management is perhaps the least reflective of a broader statecraft strategy. There has been no new third way style of party management, rather in office Helen Clark has continued to pursue the dominant style of party management she developed in Opposition.
The development of Labour's third way electoral strategy has been characterized by attempts to improve their electoral marketing, secure both the centre vote, and the Maori vote. In preparation for the 2002 election, and in light of the break up of the Alliance, Labour has also begun to develop a new electoral strategy, which involves reaching out to the Greens as a possible future coalition partner.
Over the longer term, however, the most critical challenge for Labour, and their third way party statecraft, lies in the realm of vision.
Labour argues that while visions once gave shape and meaning to the competition between left and right in New Zealand politics, for contemporary political parties the risk of promising too much by promulgating a vision of the ideal society is too great. Helen Clark observes "Visions can fuel disappointment and disengagement as easily as they can lift up people's hearts and minds." For Labour "the power of the state has been so undermined by the forces of globalisation, political parties can no longer present visions of the ideal society, simply because they can no longer build the ideal society." This argument goes to the core of Labour's governance, not politics statecraft - where the absence of vision is the vision
The Radical Left in Coalition Government:Towards a Comparative Measurement of Success and Failure
No full textThis article raises questions about how best to assess the performance of radical left parties participating in coalition governments. Drawing in part on interviews (see Appendix 1), it covers parties that have participated in coalition government (Cyprus, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Norway), or have acted as 'support parties' (Denmark, Sweden), or are debating the 'pros and cons' of coalition participation (Netherlands). It undertakes a comparative analysis of how radical left parties themselves evaluate the measure of their achievements and failings in coalition government - a critical exercise for such parties that can influence their tactical and strategic decisions about future government participation, as well as the ability of the parties to survive political and electoral setbacks. The approach we adopt is one that takes the policy, office and votes triad developed by political scientists seriously, but also factors in the principles, political outlook and goals of the parties themselves. It concludes that the experience of coalition government for radical left parties is far from encouraging to date. Their few achievements have to be set against many potential pitfalls. Whilst there may be no alternative to government participation if these parties wish to be taken seriously as actors, a more strategic and cautious approach to coalition formation seems advisable in many instances.</p
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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