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Citizens' Juries on Windfarms in Scotland
No full textThis deposit is a partial dataset from the "Citizens' Juries on Wind Farms in Scotland" research project (see: https://www.climatexchange.org.uk/research/projects/citizens-juries-on-wind-farm-development-in-scotland/). The project entailed mixed methods research including various quantitative and qualitative strands. The partial dataset deposited here is the foundation for the journal article "The importance of context and the effect of information and deliberation on opinion change regarding environmental issues in citizens’ juries" published in Sustainability in 2021.1- Codebook for the questionnaires used at the citizens' juries;
2- Codebook for the data used in the journal article "The importance of context and the effect of information and deliberation on opinion change regarding environmental issues in citizens’ juries" published in Sustainability in 2021.
3- Data used in the journal article "The importance of context and the effect of information and deliberation on opinion change regarding environmental issues in citizens’ juries" published in Sustainability in 2021
Facilitators:The micropolitics of public participation and deliberation
Full text linkMost of the forms of public participation explored throughout this Handbook are supported by a range of practitioners whose work is often rendered invisible in the study of democratic innovations. Facilitators are key agents at the frontline of current democratic practices. This chapter is about agency and the micropolitics of participatory processes, particularly of the deliberative kind. The chapter analyses the role of facilitation practitioners, their different types, their defining practices, as well as their influence on participatory processes. Drawing on a review of interdisciplinary literature, as well as on original empirical work, this chapter offers conceptual and analytical foundations for the study of facilitation practice
The present of climate assemblies
Full text linkClimate assemblies are a fast-growing phenomenon in the fields of democratic innovation and environmental governance. These new civic institutions empower citizens to participate in evidence-informed deliberation to advance collective action on the climate and ecological crisis. Climate assemblies are part of ongoing efforts to democratise environmental governance and respond to the challenges of our climate-changed world. This introductory chapter provides a state-of-the-art overview of this emerging field of research and practice. We cover the history and development of climate assemblies, reflecting on the environmental, socioeconomic, and political contexts that explain their emergence. We also provide an overview of their characteristics, critiques, and impacts, and argue that practice is progressing faster than research. Then we outline how this book contributes to narrow that gap by focussing on both the internal and external dimensions of climate assemblies, and how they are intertwined. All chapters are introduced and summarised to offer an accessible guide to key insights, before concluding with reflections about the hope and hype that underpins the present state of the field
The future of climate assemblies
Full text linkGiven the increase and spread of climate assemblies in recent times, and the related hyperbole that has followed, this chapter seeks to provide a critical examination of what they can contribute to democratising environmental and climate governance in practice. We assess the extent climate assemblies are, and can be, important new civic institutions for a climate-changed world. The chapter draws together the key lessons from practice to date and offers insights to inform research, policy, and practice on climate assemblies and environmental governance. In doing so we address two important questions for climate assemblies. Firstly, we consider to what extent the citizens’ assembly model of public engagement ‘works’ on the climate change issue. We outline what constitutes ‘working’ in this context and who climate assemblies ‘work’ for. Secondly, we make the case that five normative developments around the use of climate assemblies need to happen in practice if their potential to help democratise climate governance is to materialise. Whilst we do not claim that these will be the future developments of climate assemblies, we do identify emerging examples that relate to our normative proposals and consider the implications for the next generation of climate assemblies and research in this area
Citizens' Juries on Windfarms in Scotland
No full textThis deposit is a partial dataset from the "Citizens' Juries on Wind Farms in Scotland" research project (see: https://www.climatexchange.org.uk/research/projects/citizens-juries-on-wind-farm-development-in-scotland/). The project entailed mixed methods research including various quantitative and qualitative strands. The partial dataset deposited here is the foundation for the journal article "The importance of context and the effect of information and deliberation on opinion change regarding environmental issues in citizens’ juries" published in Sustainability in 2021.Escobar, Oliver. (2021). Citizens' Juries on Windfarms in Scotland, 2012-2014 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Social and Political Science. Politics & International Relations. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/3117
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
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