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Foran, John: Evolution of the Senate
No full textForan: When George Moscone was in the Senate, it was in a transition. Again, the one person, one vote totally altered the concept of the state Senate, which was really an ‘old-boys’ club. And within that group there with the conservative factions, people like Senator Randy Collier here from Yreka and some of the other ultra, very conservative members of the Senate. But there was a faction, a faction that appealed and that George Moscone appealed to, and that faction was composed of Senator George Miller, Senator Joe Ratigan, Virgil O\u27Sullivan, there were several others that were sort of a liberal plus. I think Tom Reese was there from Los Angeles and he was liberal. So they’re developed as the assembly members moved over into the Senate following the court decision, for a little more liberal group including George Moscone to become very, very active in the whole political arena of the state Senate. So, you could see it shifting from the old network as those people were who were knocked out by reapportionment, George Moscone became more of a ‘in person’ in the state Senate and so his liberal philosophy was not his exclusively, he had a lot of allies
Foran, John: Moscone\u27s departure from the Senate
No full textForan: I think everyone knew that George Moscone was going to leave the Senate and run for mayor of San Francisco. And there were no secrets in the capital and everybody talks and they talk about this, what is this person going to do, what is that person going to do. So it\u27s a constant conflict, constant gossiping as to where people are headed because obviously when a person leaves the position of the Senate, it leaves a vacancy in a chairmanship and that\u27s a very powerful situation
Foran, John: Moscone\u27s rise through the Senate
No full textForan: Moscone’s rise had a lot to do with issues, but I think even more so with his involvement of the political activity to get other the senators elected and support them, so that the Senate became more and more liberal and democratic
Foran, John: Fair Housing law in the early 60\u27s
No full textForan: One of the biggest issues of the time was the Fair Housing law. And, of course, we had marches. I participated in the marches, as did most of the other elected officials. Of course, that was a change from what the more conservative part of the city was like. Even the Irish were very conservative in those days, particularly building and construction trade. But actually, that, I think, was the biggest change in San Francisco, its attitude in politics. Literally, there were marches down Market Street that I participated in, others participated in, and I believe George Moscone, Leo McCarthy, all of them. And it was, of course, highly controversial because the more conservative part of the city did not want to have open housing. I thought their hot property values would decline. It was very, very bitter and so it was the taking the position in favor of fair housing was a very controversial position to take and a very risky position to take
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
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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