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Electoral reform in New Zealand. by Jonathan Boston
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Book Review: Ralph Chapman, Jonathan Boston and Margot Schwass (eds.), Confronting Climate Change: Critical Issues for New Zealand (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2006), pp. 327, paper $39.99
No full textThis article reviews the book: Confronting Climate Change: Critical Issues for New Zealand, edited by Ralph Chapman, Jonathan Boston and Margot Schwass
Jonathan Boston answers: Should New Zealand Fight Climate Change?
No full textNew Zealand is about to implement the world's first "all sectors all gases" emissions trading scheme yet the country emits only 0.2% of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions and not all the impacts of climate change on New Zealand are predicted to be negative. On the other hand New Zealand's export and tourism sectors face threats from growing consumer concerns over "food miles" and "air miles" and international pressure is needed to ensure that major emitters do something before countries vulnerable to climate change further suffer its effects. Is New Zealand's response to climate change warranted inadequate excessive or counter-productive? Jonathan Boston of the Institute of Policy Studies and Richard Meade of the New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation put New Zealand's response to climate change to the test. For a video of Jonathon's views click here
Jonathan Boston answers: Should New Zealand Fight Climate Change?
No full textNew Zealand is about to implement the world's first "all sectors all gases" emissions trading scheme yet the country emits only 0.2% of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions and not all the impacts of climate change on New Zealand are predicted to be negative. On the other hand New Zealand's export and tourism sectors face threats from growing consumer concerns over "food miles" and "air miles" and international pressure is needed to ensure that major emitters do something before countries vulnerable to climate change further suffer its effects. Is New Zealand's response to climate change warranted inadequate excessive or counter-productive? Jonathan Boston of the Institute of Policy Studies and Richard Meade of the New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation put New Zealand's response to climate change to the test. For a video of Jonathon's views click here
The quest for the good society: economics, ethics and public policy
No full textIn this paper presented to the NZ Treasury, Jonathan Boston asks how governments can build good societies—specifically, what kind of public and economic policies should be pursued to reach this goal.Introduction: Public policy is an inherently ethical undertaking. It poses fundamental questions about how we ought to live and how we should order our collective affairs. For instance, what is the nature of the good life for human beings and what constitutes a good society? Or to put it differently, what should be the goals of public policy, what kind of society should we endeavour to build, what institutions are most likely to enable human beings to flourish, what principles of justice should inform governmental decision-making and how should the non-human world be accommodated within our conceptions of the good? Further, by what means should any specific policy ends be pursued? And in situations where certain goals are in conflict, how should priorities be determined and what decision rules should be employed? This paper endeavours to cast light on such questions.Paper prepared for a Treasury seminar, Wellington, 12 July 201
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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