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Replication Data for: "Electoral Discrimination: The Relationship between Skin Color and Vote Buying in Latin America"
No full textUnder what conditions do elections produce racially discriminatory outcomes? This study proposes electoral discrimination as an electoral mechanism for racial marginalization in Indigenous and Afro-Latin America. Electoral discrimination occurs when voters are mobilized under differential terms of electoral inclusion based on their observable characteristics. Using the 2010-2014 waves of the AmericasBarometer survey (LAPOP) and a conjoint experiment this paper finds that skin color is a robust predictor of vote buying across countries in the region with large, visible black and indigenous populations. A significant portion of the relationship between skin color and vote buying is due to the disproportionate impacts of race-neutral targeting criteria on dark-skinned voters. Observed differences in wealth, political and civic engagement, partisanship, political interest, interpersonal trust, and geography together explain a portion of the skin color-client gap, although the individual contribution of each of these factors differs by country. In addition, this study finds an independent relationship between skin color and vote buying over and above these race neutral factors. The argument and findings in this paper speak broadly to the consequences of electoral mobilization in ethno-racially stratified states in Latin America and beyond
Replication Data for: "Electoral Discrimination: The Relationship between Skin Color and Vote Buying in Latin America"
No full textUnder what conditions do elections produce racially discriminatory outcomes? This study proposes electoral discrimination as an electoral mechanism for racial marginalization in Indigenous and Afro-Latin America. Electoral discrimination occurs when voters are mobilized under differential terms of electoral inclusion based on their observable characteristics. Using the 2010-2014 waves of the AmericasBarometer survey (LAPOP) and a conjoint experiment this paper finds that skin color is a robust predictor of vote buying across countries in the region with large, visible black and indigenous populations. A significant portion of the relationship between skin color and vote buying is due to the disproportionate impacts of race-neutral targeting criteria on dark-skinned voters. Observed differences in wealth, political and civic engagement, partisanship, political interest, interpersonal trust, and geography together explain a portion of the skin color-client gap, although the individual contribution of each of these factors differs by country. In addition, this study finds an independent relationship between skin color and vote buying over and above these race neutral factors. The argument and findings in this paper speak broadly to the consequences of electoral mobilization in ethno-racially stratified states in Latin America and beyond
Deterministic and ensemble forecasts
No full textDeterministic and ensemble forecasts for the 2018 HWT SF
Phenomenological Study Exploring the Lived Experiences of African American Non-Profit Executives
No full text2024In the past decade, the United States has grown increasingly diverse and as a resultexperienced continued growth in the number of non-profit organizations that provide vital services that strengthen society. Despite the increased need for services, there is a racial leadership gap in the non-profit sector, where leadership does not accurately reflect the populations that they serve. This is especially true for non-profit organizations that serve African Americans. A vast amount of literature demonstrates the influence of leadership training and development programs on nonprofit leadership, but there is a scarcity of research that examined African American non-profit leaders experiences. This phenomenological qualitative research study explored the lived experiences of African American executives in non-profit organizations to gain a deeper understanding of their unique challenges and identify strategies that may contribute to their success. To accomplish this goal, thirteen in-depth interviews were conducted with current and former executives from National Urban League affiliates. Five themes emerged from the analysis: (1) Most Impactful Early Experiences, (2) Leadership Characteristics Brought to Executive Positions, (3) Facilitators of Advancement to Executive Roles, (4) Challenges Encountered on the Path to Leadership, and (5) The Role of Ongoing Professional Development. These recommendations have the potential to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion and provide implications for future research on African American leadership in the non-profit sector
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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