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Right to Information in the Republic of India: At the Intersection of Social Inequality
No full text‘Right to Information in the Republic of India: At the Intersection of Social Inequality’ seeks to explore the interrelationship between the exercise of the right to access state-held public information and social inequality in India. A large body of literature suggests that social inequality impacts the accessibility of democratic rights while the democratization of rights strengthens civil society and anchors the process towards social equity. Drawing on this hypothesis, the methodological framework of documentary research is employed for examining the social realities surrounding India’s Right to Information Act since its inception in 2005. To meet the research objective, numerous public documents that contain quantitative and qualitative data published by the government of India, experts in the field and recognized national and international organizations are referenced. The inferences drawn from this social investigation are analyzed from the lens of a theoretical triangle inclusive of:
1) Social inequality by Solga, Berger and Powell (2009)
2) Intersectionality by Hill Collins and Bilge (2016)
3) Citizenship and social class by Marshall (1950)
With an aim to further explore this correlation, the effects of the utilization of the right to information on social inequities in India are examined. Standing at the intersection of social inequality in the Republic of India, the Right to Information Act 2005 exemplifies the interconnection between democratic practices and social disparity
Rolle des öffentlichen Raums in der deliberativen öffentlichen Sphäre: Der Fall Indien
No full textThis thesis examines the role of public space in the functioning of the public sphere within deliberative democracy, with a special focus on the Indian context. While much of the existing literature on deliberative democracy elaborates on its social requirements – the public sphere, its physical requirements – public space, have been largely overlooked. The contemporary public sphere primarily operates in a virtual environment through print and electronic media technologies in an increasingly globalized and virtually interconnected world. Despite its predominantly virtual existence, physical places that facilitate in-person deliberations still form a crucial aspect of a functioning public sphere. Academic scholarship on the topic undermines the physical needs of deliberative democracy. The thesis addresses this gap by analyzing how public spaces facilitate deliberative processes in this model of democracy and fulfill the limitations of the bourgeois public sphere and deliberative democracy. The thesis employs the methodology of rational reconstruction conceptualized by Jürgen Habermas (1989). This approach combines theoretical frameworks with empirical research by using the literature review method that sources data from books, journal articles, legal documents, and government websites. Drawing on the theoretical concepts of deliberative democracy, the public sphere, and public space, the study investigates how these elements interconnect and contribute to the workings of deliberative democracy. The empirical analysis of the Indian case illustrates the extent to which these Western theoretical frameworks remain applicable within the context of a developing country of the Global South. In particular, the thesis examines the case of India’s Right to Information (RTI) anti-corruption grassroots social movement, which spanned across a period of 17 years from 1989 to 2005. During this movement, key actors extensively utilized public spaces to facilitate deliberative democratic processes and promote the public demand for transparent and accountable state governance, highlighting the significant role of physical places in operationalizing deliberative democracy at a grassroots level. The thesis provides a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between the public sphere and public space within deliberative democracy. It concludes that accessible physical places are a vital component of an inclusive and participatory public sphere, which is necessary for fostering a healthy deliberative democracy.Diese Arbeit untersucht die Rolle des öffentlichen Raums für das Funktionieren der Öffentlichkeit innerhalb der deliberativen Demokratie, mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf dem indischen Kontext. Während ein Großteil der vorhandenen Literatur zur deliberativen Demokratie auf ihre sozialen Anforderungen eingeht – die Öffentlichkeit, ihre physischen Anforderungen – wurde der öffentliche Raum weitgehend übersehen. Die zeitgenössische Öffentlichkeit agiert in einer zunehmend globalisierten und virtuell vernetzten Welt hauptsächlich in einer virtuellen Umgebung durch Print- und elektronische Medientechnologien. Trotz ihrer überwiegend virtuellen Existenz bilden physische Orte, die persönliche Beratungen ermöglichen, nach wie vor einen entscheidenden Aspekt einer funktionierenden Öffentlichkeit. Die akademische Forschung zu diesem Thema untergräbt die physischen Bedürfnisse der deliberativen Demokratie. Die Dissertation befasst sich mit dieser Lücke, indem sie analysiert, wie öffentliche Räume deliberative Prozesse in diesem Demokratiemodell erleichtern und die Grenzen der bürgerlichen Öffentlichkeit und der deliberativen Demokratie erfüllen. Die Dissertation verwendet die von Jürgen Habermas (1989) konzipierte Methodik der rationalen Rekonstruktion. Dieser Ansatz kombiniert theoretische Rahmenkonzepte mit empirischer Forschung, indem er die Methode der Literaturrecherche verwendet, die Daten aus Büchern, Zeitschriftenartikeln, Rechtsdokumenten und Regierungswebsites heranzieht. Ausgehend von den theoretischen Konzepten der deliberativen Demokratie, der Öffentlichkeit und des öffentlichen Raums untersucht die Studie, wie diese Elemente miteinander verbunden sind und zur Funktionsweise der deliberativen Demokratie beitragen. Die empirische Analyse des indischen Falls veranschaulicht, inwieweit diese westlichen theoretischen Rahmenbedingungen im Kontext eines Entwicklungslandes des globalen Südens anwendbar bleiben. Insbesondere untersucht die Dissertation den Fall der indischen Anti-Korruptions-Basisbewegung Right to Information (RTI), die sich über einen Zeitraum von 17 Jahren von 1989 bis 2005 erstreckte. Während dieser Bewegung nutzten die Hauptakteure öffentliche Räume ausgiebig, um deliberative demokratische Prozesse zu ermöglichen und die öffentliche Forderung nach einer transparenten und rechenschaftspflichtigen Staatsführung zu fördern, was die bedeutende Rolle physischer Orte bei der Umsetzung der deliberativen Demokratie auf Graswurzelebene hervorhebt. Die Dissertation vermittelt ein umfassendes Verständnis der Beziehung zwischen dem öffentlichen Raum und dem öffentlichen Raum innerhalb der deliberativen Demokratie. Sie kommt zu dem Schluss, dass zugängliche physische Orte ein wesentlicher Bestandteil eines integrativen und partizipativen öffentlichen Raums sind, der für die Förderung einer gesunden deliberativen Demokratie notwendig ist
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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