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Can transparency foster more understanding and compliant citizens?
No full textVoluntary policy compliance is an important yet rarely studied topic in public administration. To address the paucity of research, this article proposes and empirically tests a conceptual framework that ties policy transparency and policy understanding to voluntary policy compliance intentions. The reasoning is that the extent to which citizens understand a policy contributes to their intentions to comply with that policy. Further, the authors argue that policy transparency indirectly influences voluntary policy compliance intentions through a positive effect on citizens’ levels of policy understanding. To enhance the validity of the findings, the authors assess these relationships across two policy domains. The findings reflect an indirect positive effect of transparency on voluntary compliance occurring through policy understanding. However, this emerged only for one policy domain. These results suggest that the effects of policy transparency on policy understanding and voluntary policy compliance intentions may depend on the policy domain
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
Book Review: Stakeholder Engagement by Aimee L. Franklin
No full textBook Review: Stakeholder Engagement by Aimee L. Franklin Springer Chamhttps://opus.govst.edu/fac/1259/thumbnail.jp
Borderline Budgeting: Analyzing Fiscal Responses to the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict in Neighboring Countries
No full textThe study uses a comparative approach to assess the fiscal impact of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict (RUC) on public finance in five countries bordering Ukraine: Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. To capture changes in various fiscal and budgetary indicators, including government revenues, expenditures, debt, foreign direct investment, trade, energy support measures, and foreign aid allocation, the study uses the countries’ financial data for 2019-2023. The study findings indicate that the RUC\u27s largest impact on neighboring countries appears to be short-term, as the conflict triggered a high influx of refugees and disrupted commodity production, revenues from taxation, foreign direct investments, and trade activity, diminishing government fiscal capacity to mitigate the effects of the conflict. As the conflict transitions into a long-term phase, the case countries report positive changes in the economic development indicators. Furthermore, the risk of conflict diffusion across borders and threats to the neighboring country’s political stability motivate donors to allocate more aid to foster the neighboring states\u27 abilities to mitigate the consequences of the conflict. However, the study reveals variations in donors’ allocation of aid among the case countries, suggesting that the donor’s aid allocation decisions are contingent upon the ability of the neighboring country to manage conflict pressures and its regime stability
Understanding Collaborative Performance: The Case of Illinois 9-1-1 Emergency Call Service
Full text linkThis dissertation empirically tests the effects of system context conditions such as political dynamics, legal framework, and conflict history on collaborative performance in the context of mandated collaborative governance regimes (CGRs) at the local level, namely the Illinois 9-1-1 Emergency Telephone System Boards (ETSBs). More specifically, this study examines how system context conditions affect the decision-making capacity of the Illinois 9-1-1 emergency call service and whether the system context and formative conditions affect the 9-1-1 ETSB’s productivity performance expressed through collaborative capacity to manage and marshal financial resources. The results suggest that more importance should be given to the influence of the system context constraints on collaborative outcomes, such as collaborative decision-making capacity and goal agreement as well as financial sustainability, specifically in the mandated CGRs, as they are vulnerable to the political and stakeholder pressures. This research contributes to the studies on networks and collaborative governance by identifying the nature of system context constraints and the extent to which they can limit collaborative decision-making and resource-management capacities. This dissertation used both qualitative and quantitative methodologies to provide insights on factors affecting performance in mandated collaborative governance regimes that will be of interest to both policy makers and researchers interested in collaborative public management
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
Human-Centered Design in Teaching: Creating Inclusive and Belonging-Focused Classrooms
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