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Living Legacy of Camp Pattison: Civilian Conservation Corps at Pattison State Park, 1935-1942
No full textThis research examines the history of the involvement of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at Pattison State Park. Often overlooked were the lives of the men in Company 3663 and how living and working at Camp Pattison changed their lives for the better and transformed public spaces still enjoyed by Wisconsinites today. In present commemoration of the CCC’s work at Pattison, the lives of the men who built the park go unknown to visitors. By exploring how the CCC improved the site while also improving the lives of corpsmen, this project argues there is a greater need for acknowledgement related to working-class labor in Wisconsin’s public parks. One prominent sign recognizes the work on the CCC-built shelter building, only saying that the men had chiseled rock to build the shelter; to the average visitor, this is the only time they engage with the history of the park or the men who built it. But, through new synthesis of primary and secondary source material, this project argues there is a need for wider-ranging acknowledgement of the lives and accomplishments of men at Camp Pattison and the state park
The Progressive Center: Midwestern Liberalism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992
No full textThis dissertation focuses on the ways in which the political culture of the American Upper Midwest, particularly liberal and Democratic Party politics, is characterized by a distinct predilection toward the ideas, organizing principles, and policy positions of “progressive populism.” In the wake of a series of electoral defeats in the years spanning 1978 to 1980, the state-level Democratic parties of the five-state region of Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin necessarily reassessed their relationship to their political heritage. This dissertation argues and identifies that the defining feature of Midwestern liberalism is the progressive political tradition that those Midwestern Democrats rediscovered in the 1980s. In the majority of these states, during either the 1890s or interwar years, left-wing third-party movements—the Populist Party, Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, North Dakota Nonpartisan League, and Wisconsin Progressive Party—displaced the traditional two-party system with broad, class-based appeals to state voters, controlling state legislatures, electing statewide officials, and sending third-party elected representatives to Congress. In the years following 1980, Democratic figures in these states drew, intentionally, on the legacy of those historical progressives to rebuild, redefine, and reconceive of their party’s structure.This process of rebuilding and redefinition of Midwestern liberalism began, however, at the local level amid a series of profound economic dislocations in the Upper Midwest—deindustrialization, inflation, tax base loss, and plunging farm commodities prices—as average citizens joined an undercurrent of political activists to create a broad political movement that sought to challenge the status quo of local, state, and national politics. Joining into organizations that sought to reform utility rates, women’s rights issues, environmental causes, minority rights, farm policy, and more, these people—some activists, some not—engaged with the political process and the resistance of the policies imposed by the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. While defining themselves as conservative or moderate, they increasingly turned to candidates who described themselves as liberal, progressive, or even populist, revealing the power of progressive activists and politicians alike to capture the fabled center of American politics without being a centrist. That coalition, which I call the “progressive center,” is effectively an artificial construct, but one that defines the electoral majorities created by the Democratic politicians who used the concepts of “progressive populism” to tap into a broad movement of Midwestern voters and win statewide elections amid what is known to scholars as the “Age of Reagan.” This dissertation follows a quadrennial pattern, narrating the years leading up to 1980, 1984, 1988, and 1992, with chapters in the latter three sections proceeding in a format of activism, state politics, and national politics, tracing the formation of political liberalism in the Midwest from the crucible of grassroots organizing, the debates and coalitions of state politics, and those activists and politicians’ attempts to affect fundamental reform at the national political level. By focusing on the electoral coalitions built by these activist organizations and these politicians, I distinguish the Upper Midwest as a political region defined by its style of liberalism—based on farm-labor, rural-urban, class-based organizing principles that operated as a distinct wing of the national Democratic Party, drawing on historical understandings of left-wing radicalism to explicitly articulate a new form of progressive populism acknowledged in national politics as belonging uniquely to the Midwest
Color Coded: Party Politics in the American West, 1950-2016
Full text linkReview of: Color Coded: Party Politics in the American West, 1950–2016, by Walter Nugent
Jon K. Lauck and Paula M. Nelson,eds, The Plains Political Tradition: Essays on South Dakota Political Culture, Volume 4
No full textMARC C. JOHNSON, Tuesday Night Massacre: Four Senate Election and the Radicalization of the Republican Party
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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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