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Personnalisation et leadership Le cas du Mouvement Cinq Étoiles
Get PDFThe article draws a characterisation of the late comer among the Italian populist parties, the Five Star’ Movement, led by the ancient comedian Beppe Grillo. Starting with a definition of what he means by “political personalisation”, the Author first describe this party as a political organisation in which the leader masters all the key areas – notably, communication, rules setting, and resolution of internal conflicts. Then, he argue that the Five Star Movement is a “personalist party”, in which Beppe Grillo embodies a powerful but non-charismatic leader. In the closing section, the Author tries to shed light above the probable evolutions of the party, particularly dealing with its institutionalisation process
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
Political Structure and Political Process in the Study of Populism. Some Notes on Margaret Canovan’s Approach
No full textIn order to understand the emergence of contemporary populisms in Europe, Canovan
(1999) focused on the structural struggle that opposes the “redeeming face” of democracy
to the “pragmatic” one. Following this scheme, many scholars have glimpsed an imbalance
in European democracies, which promotes the “pragmatic” side against the “redeemer”
one. In their view, this imbalance represents a major cause in the rise of populisms. This
analysis is explicitly questioned, for two main reasons: a) the strive between the two sides
is common to all contemporary democracies, so it is hard to see it as a strong explanatory
variable; b) Canovan does not establish a causal linkage between the structural struggle
thus identified and the success of populism. Aiming at explaining the latter, it is necessary to look also at the phenomena developing at the procedural level of polyarchies. The
argument is discussed in connection with the 2013 Italian elections
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
Comunicazione politica. Un approccio teorico
Get PDFChe cosa è la comunicazione politica? Quali sono i tratti che ne contraddistinguono lo studio secondo i canoni della scienza politica? Come i social media hanno innovato la retorica politica nonché la partecipazione politica di massa? Il volume intende rispondere a tali interrogativi, muovendosi sul piano teorico. Dopo aver tracciato i confini dell'oggetto di studio, l'autore delinea una rassegna della letteratura specialistica, finalizzata ad identificare nessi esplicativi tra le variabili genuinamente politiche (regimi, ruoli, situazioni), da un lato, e le condotte comunicative tenute dagli attori politicamente rilevanti (leader, gruppi di pressione, cittadini), dall'altro. Ne deriva uno schema generale per l'interpretazione della comunicazione politica, con particolare riguardo alle democrazie contemporanee
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
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