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La polarizzazione politica nel campaigning di Salvini. Il caso delle elezioni regionali del 2020
No full textPolitical polarization is the focus of a lively public and scientific debate concerning not only party systems, but also political leaders, parties and electorates, with different interpretations of the phenomenon, intended as ideological polarization (where the poles are located along the traditional left-right axis or/and along policy dimensions) or affective polarization (based on emotions, initially articulated as in-group favoritism and out-group animus). In this study we develop some insights deriving from the most recent literature debating the causes of affective polarization (mostly centered on the US case), and formulate some specific hypotheses to test in the Italian context by looking at the campaigning messages (on Facebook and Twitter) of a highly polarizing political leader – Matteo Salvini, leader of Lega – in a salient campaign such as that of the regional elections of January 2020 in Emilia-Romagna and Calabria. Specifically, we test the strategic use of divisive issues and of messages framed against others, and the feedback of Salvini’s community to the various messages in terms of engagement on the two social platforms
Change of government and interest groups' preference attainment on the formulation of the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP): from Conte to Draghi
Get PDFThis article focuses on how the 20 main Italian interest groups evaluated the contents of the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). In comparing its two versions (Conte Draft and Draghi Plan), we want to understand whether the change of government impacted on the contents of the NRRP and, in turn, on interest groups' preference attainment. To do so, we coded around 800 public statements following a multi-media approach. Interest groups' general appraisal for the NRRP grew with the change of government, while business groups greatly increased their degree of preference attainment. This within-case longitudinal comparison assesses the importance of governments' partisan composition to account for interest groups' success in the policymaking
Chi detta l’agenda? Le dichiarazioni pubbliche dei gruppi di interesse sul Recovery Fund
No full textThe so-called «Recovery Fund» represented a perhaps unrepeatable opportunity for Italian interest groups to see their own requests transformed into public policies. This article focuses on how the most important organized interests mobilized and contributed to the public debate on the Recovery Fund by attempting to answer three main research questions: which interests have received greater media visibility with respect to the RF? Which issues those same interest groups brought to the at-tention of public opinion? With what consequences (if any) to the main contents of the plan itself? We focus on the 20 most important Italian interest groups, recon-structing their lobbying activity and public frames through the coding of their media interventions and press coverage from September 2020 to the end of April 2021
The Evolution of Lobbying in the Digital Age
No full textThis paper argues that digitalness, as the defining attribute of our era, provides an unprecedented opportunity to better understand our world and develop improved strategies for managing institutional relations. In this context, the innovative method of Digital Lobbying is introduced as a means to accurately decode a complex, intricate, and volatile society. Digital Lobbying is ultimately characterized as a positive-sum game, capitalizing on the myriad possibilities off ered by technological innovation. It employs an innovative approach that integrates these possibilities into a coherent framework, aiming to create greater value for professionals, organizations, their stakeholders, and public decision-makers. Th is method may contribute to enhancing democracy and the quality of its processes by fostering more transparent, efficient, and effective interactions within the public sphere
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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