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The Postliberal Caricature of James Madison : Civic Republican or Modern Liberal?
No full textPostliberals such as Patrick Deneen decry liberal philosophy as one whichprioritizes radically individualistic concerns and replaces communal institutions with the uniformity of the centralized state. Central to the thesis of Deneen's book, Why Liberalism Failed, is the idea of the great failure of the American Founding, which he sees as the first true implementation of liberal political philosophy. One of Deneen's primary targets from this era is James Madison, but his critiques hinge mainly on a few lines from Federalist #10 taken heavily out of context. Through an analysis of the entire corpus of Madison's work, as well as modern scholarship, it is clear that the Founder was not the anti-majoritarian radical individualist painted by Deneen and others. Rather, Madison was a civic republican with a primary goal of instilling virtuous citizenship in people living under the new constitutional order
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
Beyond separation and accommodation : Sandra Day O'Connor on religion and the political order.
No full textThis dissertation examines the American Supreme Court's political thought concerning religion as it is revealed through its Establishment Clause jurisprudence. Scholarship on the Court's Establishment jurisprudence tends to focus on the legal theories employed by the various justices and therefore also the legal consequences of the Court's decisions. This project approaches these opinions from a theoretical perspective, analyzing the justices' particular theoretical understandings of religion and how it philosophically fits within the American community's political order. After arguing that the Court has assumed that the religion protected by the First Amendment is believed as opposed to enacted, individualist as opposed to communal, and voluntarist as opposed to received, the dissertation examines the two main approaches the Supreme Court has taken to adjudicate Establishment claims—Separation and Accommodation—showing that both approaches presume this theory of religion, therefore also assuming that religion must be privatized. Turning to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's jurisprudence, the project suggests an alternative approach to religion within the American political community, arguing that O'Connor's theoretical approach creates space for religion within the American political community. Reading her Free Exercise and Establishment jurisprudence in conjunction with each other shows that she presumes that religious freedom is political in character, and therefore becomes intelligible through religious persons' participation in the American political community as religious persons
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
Touching home : baseball and the liberal-republican tradition in America.
No full textThis dissertation explores how baseball has shaped the way Americans understand the liberal and republican foundations of this country. To do so, it examines baseball's relationship to the class, race, and gender issues of the 20th century. It argues that baseball's combination of liberal individualism and republican civic virtue prompted it to occupy a special place in American society as people came to think of it as both a relic of simpler times and as the driving force of economic and social progress. Focusing on baseball's connection to issues of class, race, and gender is essential for understanding the purpose of much of the mythologizing of baseball that has existed since its post-Civil War professionalization. In particular, this dissertation examines the mythologizing of baseball's pastoralism, its desegregation, and its inculcation of manliness as a civic virtue. These myths have become ingrained in baseball in several key ways: the Supreme Court's granting of an antitrust exemption to Major League Baseball, the promotion of Jackie Robinson's career as proof of MLB's compliance in desegregation, and the short-lived AAGPBL and further relegation of women to softball. Through the exploration of the topics above, this dissertation highlights baseball's development from accessible hobby into multi-billion dollar corporation, during which we can see the creation of myth used for the purpose of gaining economic and political power both in local communities and nationally. Thus, this dissertation aims to begin the process of demythologizing baseball so that fans and the general American public can start understanding the ways in which their attempts at creating community via baseball instead further the liberal individualism sewn into the fabric of America during the founding era
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
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
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