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UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION POLICY SUPPORT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Full text linkA discrepancy exists between public concern for climate change and support for policy solutions for climate change. Understanding why there is a discrepancy between concern and support is important to reduce that discrepancy. Much of this discrepancy has been attributed to sharp political divisions in support of climate policies. However, climate change policies are not one-dimensional. Only a few studies have examined differences in support in a way that distinguishes mitigation from adaptation policies, with a small number suggesting less political division over adaptation policies. This dissertation aims to fill this gap in the literature by exploring the latent structure of public support for climate change policies and understanding the nuanced variations in partisan support across different types of climate change policies.This dissertation utilizes survey data from voting-age U.S. residents to expand understanding of the multiple dimensions of public support for climate change policies. It is organized in a three-study format, each constituting a distinct paper, with each paper being suitable for independent submission to academic journals. The first study uses exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis to uncover the underlying structural dimensions of climate change policy support. The findings show that support for climate change policies is better understood as a multidimensional construct that distinguishes mitigation from adaptation policies. Researchers should avoid overly generalized discussions of climate change policies and should rather clearly specify whether they are referring to climate mitigation or adaptation policies in their research.The second study analyzes how political identity shapes public support for climate mitigation and adaptation policies. A comprehensive investigation of support for mitigation and adaptation policies reveals nuanced differences among Republicans in their support for adaptation versus mitigation. While Democrats show similar levels of support for mitigation and adaptation policies, Republicans show higher levels of support for adaptation than mitigation policies. These findings offer critical insights for crafting more successful policy approaches, which take advantage of the knowledge that climate adaptation policies are less polarized.The third study investigates a belief known as the inverted quarantine impulse, which maintains that individuals can personally shield themselves from climate harm. It examines how this impulse interacts with political identity to influence climate policy support preferences. The findings suggest that the inverted quarantine impulse may drive greater support for adaptation over mitigation policies. An interaction effect was found for Republicans who have higher levels of the inverted quarantine impulse, showing that they also have higher levels of support for climate mitigation policies
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Testing the relationship between political cueing and environmental opinion
Full text linkWhat effect does political cueing have on individual environmental opinion? This study examines the ways in which individual support for government spending to protect the environment is influenced by the political affiliation of politicians sponsoring a proposed increase. The environment is a Democratic-owned issue, and support for environmental protection measures has arguably become an important component of what it means to be a self-identified Democrat. Drawing on social identity theory I predict that, because of this, self-identified Democrats will maintain support for new federal spending to protect the environment regardless of the partisan identity of legislative sponsors. However, individual Republicans who perceive Democratic elites as a threatening are hypothesized to vary support following the political cueing of partisan sponsorship. A survey-experiment using a factorial design was conducted with unique survey data from a convenience sample of voting-age Americans who identify as either Democrats or Republicans (n=800). Respondents were presented a vignette where the partisan identity of legislative sponsors for new federal spending on environmental protection was randomly assigned. Results show that when environmental legislation is sponsored by Democratic legislators, support from Republicans drops about 12% compared to conditions where legislation is sponsored by Republicans or a bipartisan group of legislators. Support among Democrats remains the same regardless of legislative sponsorship. Finally, exploratory analysis of gender differences within parties reveals that it is mainly Republican males, and not females, who respond to outgroup cues
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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