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Virtual Event: Coronavirus and Dysfunction in Washington, D.C.
No full textVideo of this event has been published on the Humphrey School's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7EcPV9HzSs
The Constitutional design of three branches checking each other is broken. Modern presidents have expanded executive power long before Donald Trump's inauguration. But the assumption the Framers made-- that loyalty to one's own institution and its role – no longer applies in an era of tribal loyalties when Republicans in both the House and Senate routinely unify as a block to support President Trump.The result: Trump is asserting new powers or stretching prior precedents to the breaking point. Why has Congress acquiesced and could we witness a resurgence?
This event will feature scholar of Congress Norm Ornstein and longtime political commentator Professor Larry Jacobs to discuss the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic and the response in Washington, D.C.Ornstein, Norm; Jacobs, Larry. (2020). Virtual Event: Coronavirus and Dysfunction in Washington, D.C.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/214903
Debating Health Care
No full textMany DFL candidates in Minnesota promised voters they would expand access to health care by broadening access to MinnesotaCare from the near poor to more middle-income people who would pay to enroll. How would such a "buy-in" option work? Could it pass in a Minnesota Senate where Republicans hold the majority? Join us for a conversation featuring Senator Michelle Benson (R) and national health care industry expert Joel Ario. Professor Larry Jacobs moderated.Center for the Study of Politics and Governance; Humphrey School of Public Affairs, UMNArio, Joel; Benson, Michelle; Jacobs, Larry. (2019). Debating Health Care. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/202742
State Capture: Conservatives Are Winning the War to Influence States
No full textSince the 1970's conservative donors, activists, and business have been building networks to influence the state policy process. Professor Alexander Hertel-Fernandez from Columbia University will visit the Humphrey School to talk about why conservatives have been successful using organizations like ALEC to influence policy making while progressives have lagged behind.
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez is a political scientist who studies the effect that organized interests have on public policy. His book Politics at Work: How Companies Turn Their Workers Into Lobbyists examines how business are using their workforces to influence American politics. His most recent book is State Capture:How Conservative Activists, Big Businesses, and Wealthy Donors Reshaped the American States -- and the Nation. Copies will be available to purchase at the event.Center for the Study of Politics and Governance; Humphrey School of Public Affairs, UMNHertel-Fernandez, Alex; Jacobs, Larry. (2019). State Capture: Conservatives Are Winning the War to Influence States. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/202740
A Conversation with Theda Skocpol
No full textProfessor Theda Skocpol of Harvard University is among America’s most acclaimed scholars of American politics. Her conversation will cover topics ranging from her new research on community responses to President Trump and her continuing research on the Tea Party and conservative networks.
Theda Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. She has served as the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Director of the Center for American Political Studies. She is the founder and director of the Scholar Strategy Network, a group of academics dedicated to using research to improve public policy. Among her most recent books are The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism, What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality, and Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life.Center of the Study of Politics and Governance, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, UMNSkocpol, Theda; Jacobs, Larry. (2019). A Conversation with Theda Skocpol. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/202739
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
Free Speech: President Trump and College Campuses
No full textThe US Constitution mandates that the government -- which includes state universities -- should not discriminate against speakers based on their viewpoints. Should university panels include diverse perspectives, including conservatives who may unsettle students and faculty? What about advocates for extreme nationalist viewpoints whose presence invites large protests that impose substantial costs on universities and colleges? Has President Trump's recent executive order secured campus free speech (as advertised) or potentially weakened it?
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Jane Kirtley is the Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law at the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. She has written and spoken extensively on free speech and media ethics. Professor Kirtley has also written friend-of-the-court briefs in the US Supreme Court and published two books.
Isaiah Ogren is the Speaker of the Forum for the Minnesota Student Association. In that role he serves as a neutral arbiter for MSA legislation. He is an academic junior with majors in History and Individualized Study.Center for the Study of Politics and Governacne; Humphrey School of Public Affairs, UMNKirtley, Jane; Jacobs, Larry; Ogren, Isaiah. (2019). Free Speech: President Trump and College Campuses. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/202741
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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