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Funktsionaalsed, kattuvad ja konkureerivad jurisdiktsioonid (FKKJ-id) võimaliku vahendina Venemaa omavalitsustevaheliseks koostööks kooliteenuste pakkumisel
Full text linkOmavalitsuste arv väheneb Venemaal demograafiliste probleemide tõttu. Omavalitsuste liitmine näib olevat vältimatu ja avalike teenuste, näiteks koolihariduse osutamine liigub tsentraliseerimise suunas. Siiski ei ole kõik eksperdid nõus, et omavalitsuste laienemine on tingimata ainus ja parim lahendus kooliteenuste väheneva nõudluse lahendamiseks. Viimase idee toetuseks pakutakse käesolevas väitekirjas alternatiivse lähenemisena lahendada rahvastiku vähenemise tagajärjed Venemaal omavalitsustevahelise koostöö abil funktsionaalsete kattuvate ja konkureerivate jurisdiktsioonide (FKKJ-id) kujul. Lõputöö tähenduses on FKKJ-id majandusüksused, mis osutavad erinevaid avalikke teenuseid, kattuvad geograafiliselt, konkureerivad klientide ja liikmete (omavalitsuste) pärast ning omavad juriidilisi õigusi ja kohustusi.
Doktoritöö tulemused täiendavad FKKJ-ide teooriat. Pakkudes välja aluse omavalitsuste, FKKJ-ide juhtkonna ja kõrgemate jurisdiktsioonide otsuste tegemiseks ning rakendades mänguteooria lähenemisviise majandusmudelite koostamisel. Töö autor on välja töötanud matemaatilised mudelid avaliku sektori üksuste otsuste tegemiseks monopoolse ja duopoolse juhtumi jaoks, eeldades erinevat tüüpi juhtimiskäitumist.
Doktoritöös antakse soovitusi, kuidas omavalitsustevahelist koostööd FKKJ-ide vormis tuleks praktikas korraldada kooliteenuste osutamiseks, mis on väga oluline omavalitsustevahelise koostöö ja kooliharidusega seotud regionaalarengupoliitika kavandamisel. Dokumendianalüüsi ja Saksamaal ning Venemaal läbiviidud intervjuude (omavalitsuste ja piirkondade haridusosakondade ametnike, koolijuhtide ja lapsevanematega) põhjal esitatakse institutsionaalseid soovitused FKKJ-ide juriidilise kohaldatavuse kohta. Institutsioonilised soovitused puudutavad koolide FKKJ-i ühinguvormi (liitu) ning vajalikku memorandumit ja põhikirja, mis peaks reguleerima koolide FKKJ-i tegevust Venemaal ja teistes Ida-Euroopa riikides.The number of municipalities is decreasing in Russia as a consequence of demographic issues. Municipal amalgamation seems unavoidable and the provision of public services, such as for example, school education is moving towards centralization. However, not all the experts can agree that municipal enlargement is necessarily the only and the best solution for declining demand for school services. In support of the latter idea, the thesis suggests to resolve the consequences of depopulation in Russia by the means of inter-municipal cooperation in the form of Functional Overlapping and Competing Jurisdictions (FOCJs) as an alternative approach. In the thesis, FOCJs are economic units, which provide different public services, geographically overlap, compete for clients and members (municipalities) and possess juridical rights and obligations.
The results of the PhD thesis contribute to the theory for FOCJs by suggesting a basis for the decision-making in municipalities, FOCJ management and higher rank jurisdictions and by applying game theoretical approaches to economic modelling. In particular, the author has developed mathematical models for public units’ decision-making in monopoly and duopoly, assuming different types of management behaviour.
The thesis also provides recommendations on how inter-municipal cooperation in the form of FOCJs should be organised in practice for school services provision, which is very important for the planning of regional development policy related to inter-municipal cooperation and school education. Based on interviews conducted in Germany and Russia with public officials in education departments on municipal and regional levels, heads of schools and parents and document analysis, the author proposed institutional recommendations regarding applicability of FOCJs from the juridical point of view. Institutional recommendations concern the company form of association (union) for the FOCJs and required Memorandum and Statute, which should regulate activities of school FOCJs in Russia and other Eastern European countries.https://www.ester.ee/record=b545081
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
Ukraina mittepanganduslike finantsasutuste regulatiivne raamistik: võimalused ja takistused
No full textThe role of financial intermediators in reducing energy poverty: an example of Kredex for renovation of multiapartment buildings in Ida-Virumaa
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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
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