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The opposition alliance in Turkey's 2023 elections
No full textOn 14 May Turkish voters headed to polls to elect a new president and parliament for a five-year term. For many observers of Turkish politics, the 2023 elections were the opposition's best chance to unseat President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan since his Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) was first voted into power in the November 2002 elections. Weakened by high inflation, intra-party fissures, and devastating earthquakes in February, Erdoğan's ruling People Alliance met with a strong challenge by an opposition pre-electoral alliance that nominated a joint presidential candidate; achieved partial coordination in parliamentary lists and ran a joint campaign. An opposition alliance that fielded joint candidates in the 2019 local elections had already defeated the ruling People's Alliance candidates in several of the country's most populous metropolitan areas and set its eyes for the presidency since then
Book review: the revival of Islam in the Balkans: from identity to religiosity edited by Arolda Elbasani and Olivier Roy
No full textIn the edited collection The Revival of Islam in the Balkans: From Identity to Religiosity, editors Arolda Elbasani and Olivier Roy bring together essays that consider the choices, practices and public expressions of faith exercised by Muslims in the Balkans through a range of cross-country case studies. Nikos Christofis welcomes this book as a timely addition to the literature with its rich insights and innovative path-breaking analyses
Book review: resolving Cyprus: new approaches to conflict resolution
No full textThis edited volume presents a range of perspectives on the Cyprus conflict, with thirty leading experts drawing on their research and experience to assess whether a solution can finally be found to the dispute. Nikos Christofis finds the book to be a welcome addition to the literature on the Cyprus Problem which brings together some of the most important arguments pertaining to the issue in a single volume
Book review: designing peace: Cyprus and institutional innovations in divided societies by Neophytos Loizides
Get PDFIn Designing Peace: Cyprus and Institutional Innovations in Divided Societies, Neophytos Loizides outlines how institutional innovation can be crucial to designing peace processes and resolving conflict, focusing on the particular case of Cyprus whilst also drawing on other examples of divided societies. This is a well-researched and comprehensive book offering insights that will be of use to policymakers as well as students and scholars working on conflict resolution and Europeanisation processes, writes Nikos Christofis
Book review: The Europeanisation of contested statehood: the EU in Northern Cyprus by George Kyris
No full textThe Europeanisation of Contested Statehood: The EU in Northern Cyprus is a timely contribution to existing literature on Cyprus, European Studies and Europeanisation. Nikos Christofis argues that George Kyris provides a formative study of the impact and influence of the EU on northern Cyprus for researchers, specialists and nonspecialists alike, and a valuable insight into the ‘Cyprus Problem’ that crucially places northern Cyprus and Turkish Cypriots at the heart of the analysis
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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