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Football's Bad Governance in the Dock: The Court of Arbitration for Sport and FIFA's Policing of Football Officials
Get PDFThe Fédération Internationale de Football Association, better known as FIFA, has been through turbulent times in recent years. The infamous pictures of early morning arrests in a luxurious Zurich Hotel in May 2015 are still in people’s mind and Sepp Blatter’s tenure at the helm of the organization is forever tainted by the decimation of FIFA’s Executive Committee (reborn since then as FIFA Council) by the United States Department of Justice. This chapter aims to take a look at how the CAS has dealt with FIFA’s attempts at policing the misbehaviour of its administrators and those of its affiliates. Since 2010, we have witnessed a growing wave of inquiries being launched and sanctions being issued by FIFA against football administrators for failing to comply with its FIFA Code of Ethics (FCE). In turn, this activation of FIFA’s internal policing capacity led almost mechanically to an increasing number of challenges at the CAS, which is the sole competent judicial authority to review FIFA’s decisions. The holdings of the CAS in these cases have a crucial impact on the scope and modalities of FIFA’s investigations and disciplinary processes by defining their procedural and substantial boundaries. This chapter aims to provide a first overview of the (publicly available) CAS awards involving the review of FIFA decisions grounded in the FCE and focused on governance matters.<br/
CAS 2017/A/5166 and 5405 Palestine Football Association v. Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), Award of 9 July 2018
Get PDFThis article deals with a case stemming originally from a complaint lodged in 2015 by the Palestine Football Association (“PFA”) with FIFA regarding six teams affiliated to the Israeli Football Association (“IFA”), which are physically located in Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (“OPT”). In particular, the PFA claimed that a group of IFA-affiliated clubs were violating FIFA rules by playing on the PFA’s territory. After a long and tortuous consultation process, which included the creation of a dedicated Monitoring Committee, the FIFA Council decided in October 2017 to maintain the status quo and declined to sanction the IFA or the clubs. Both this decision and a related motion adopted by the FIFA Congress were appealed by the PFA to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). This commentary reviews the ensuing CAS Award and concludes that it constituted a missed opportunity as it failed to tackle the main questions at the heart of the dispute
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
Setting the scene
No full textThis introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the draft direct trade regulation which was intended to allow direct trade between Northern Cyprus and the European Union (EU). It reviews origin-related measures adopted by the EU against territories whose military and economic occupation was openly condemned internationally. The book focuses on the conditions that exporters have to fulfil in order to bring their products into the EU under preferential trading rules. It also examines whether investment arbitration can serve as a means to hold the occupying State accountable for its conduct towards foreign investors and investments. The book argues that the way in which the Commission chose to frame the relevant legal issues and its strategic and selective use of international law seems to be both normatively dubious and politically motivated
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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