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As Direitas no Sul da Europa. Vol XLVI 4° Trimestre 2011 della Rivista Analise Social. Revista do Instituto de Ciencas Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa
No full textThe Lega Nord
No full textFrom a comparative perspective, the Lega Nord (LN) can be situated at the intersection of two distinct historical processes. The first is the so-called “ethnic revival” (Smith 1981), which in the 1960s and the 1970s gave new voice to a number of actors representing the peripheries of states and allowed many autonomist parties to gain political representation. The second is the “silent counter-revolution” (Ignazi 1992), leading to the rise of new political parties (variously labelled as new right, new radical right or neo-populist) that articulated anti-establishment discourses and raised issues that were previously absent from political debate. These included opposition to immigration and, more recently, strong Euroscepticism.
Keeping in mind the LN’s dual profile, the following section presents a summary of the LN’s evolution through the achievement of several
thresholds, as introduced in the Introduction to this volume. The chapter then turns to examine how passing different thresholds has impacted upon the LN’s organisation and its pursuit of goals
Regionalism, Right-wing Extremism, Populism: The Elusive Nature of the Lega Nord
No full textThe question about the ‘real’ nature of the Lega Nord (LN – the Northern Legue) has always triggered disputes among international scholars. The LN has actually been classified according to two major criteria: (a) systemic and (b) territorial. The systemic interpretation of the party has emphasized its ideological component of right-wing extremism (Eatwell and Mudde 2004), or right-wing radicalism (Minkenberg 1998; Norris 2005) on issues such as immigration, law and order and on the authoritarian traits of the party members’ personality. The regionalist interpretation takes into account the peculiar territorial roots of the LN and its ‘obsession’ with its heartland (Taggart 2000), the so-called Padania. A further label – a sort of cross-assessment of the style and the means used by the party to exploit its most popular issues – refers to the populist nature of the LN (Betz 1994; Tarchi 2003) and to a general anti (political)-establishment character shared by a substantial number of European parties (Schedler 1996).
In this chapter, we will try to define the LN’s nature through: (1) a description of the historical evolution of the party since its first appearance in the late 1970s; (2) an investigation of the evolution of the party’s political platform, with particular attention to the elements that contributed to its electoral success: federalism, immigration, law and order and the European Union; and (3) an analysis of attitudes shown by LN’s voters on a number of issues in the last available post-electoral survey, carried out by the ITANES research group in 2006. Our conclusion will then be that the LN is best understood as a multifaceted party, where elements of localism and regionalism are present alongside traits of populism and characters common to other European far-right parties, especially as far as immigration policy is concerned. On the contrary, we believe that laying a claim to describe this party by referring to only one of these definitions, inevitably leads to a weak and partial understanding
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
Regulation of platelet alpha2 adrenergic receptors in a population of patients with essential arterial hypertension and in normotensive subjects
No full textThe development of specific binding techniques for the study of adrenergic receptors on circulating human blood cells has allowed a better understanding of the physiological alterations of adrenergic receptors and changes of adrenergic receptors in pathological conditions such as hypertension. Alpha adrenoceptors play an important part in blood pressure regulation at several sites. There are contradictory and conflicting reports on whether alpha receptor mechanisms are altered in essential hypertension. To address further the role of alpha 2 adrenoceptors in human essential hypertension the number and the affinity of alpha 2 adrenergic receptors and plasma catecholamine levels were measured in 20 normotensive and 24 hypertensive subjects. The median number of receptors (Bmax) was 159.10 +/- 14.38 fmol/mg protein for controls versus 179.09 +/- 13.26 fmol/mg protein for hypertensives. The median dissociation constant (KD) of the receptors for 3H-Yohimbine was 1.43 +/- 0.17 nmol/l for controls and 1.85 +/- 0.19 nmol/l for hypertensives patients. There were no differences in catecholamine plasma levels between the two groups. In controls platelet alpha 2 receptor number correlated with age (p less than 0.003) but not with blood pressure values. Our results show that measurement of platelet alpha 2 receptor levels and affinity is unable to differentiate a group of hypertensives from normotensives. Nevertheless, we cannot exclude a possible role of peripheral alpha 2 adrenergic receptors in the pathogenesis of high blood pressure
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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