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Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung von privaten und staatlichen Akteuren im Vergleich: Das Beispiel der Bedarfsplanung für deutsche Stromnetze
Full text linkEs ist etablierte Praxis, dass Behörden die Öffentlichkeit vor wichtigen Entscheidungen beteiligen. In jüngster Zeit sind auch private Akteure wie Unternehmen gefordert, vor Großprojekten die Öffentlichkeit zu beteiligen. Der Beitrag untersucht, wie sich Teilnehmerfeld und Stellungnahmen dieser Konsultationen unterscheiden in Abhängigkeit davon, ob Behörden oder Unternehmen die Konsultation durchführen. Empirischer Fall ist die Aufstellung des Netzentwicklungsplanes Strom durch Netzbetreiber und Bundesnetzagentur, die beide die Öffentlichkeit beteiligen. Ergebnis ist, dass BürgerInnen sich häufiger an die Bundesnetzagentur wenden, und dass vor allem professionelle Akteure der Interessenvermittlung die Möglichkeit der doppelten Konsultationsteilnahme nutzen. Die tauschtheoretische Vermutung, dass an die Netzbetreiber vor allem ökonomische und an die Bundesnetzagentur vor allem juristische Argumente gerichtet werden, bestätigt sich nicht. Allerdings nutzen die KonsultationsteilnehmerInnen die Konsultation bei der Bundesnetzagentur, um die mangelnde Responsivität der Netzbetreiber zu kritisieren. Eine Lösung könnte sein, staatlichen Akteuren mehr Kompetenzen zu geben, die Konsultationen von Unternehmen zu begleiten und rechtlich einzurahmen.It is commonplace that state actors consult the public. In recent times, however, public participation has also become prevalent among private actors like companies. The article studies how participants and their arguments vary depending on whether a public consultation is conducted by state or private actors. The empirical case is the German grid development plan. Both the private Transmission System Operators (TSOs) and the Federal Network Agency (FNA) consult the public during the setup of this plan. The main finding is that citizens prefer to send their inputs to the FNA rather than the TSOs. Moreover, especially professionalized interest groups send opinions to both the TSOs and the FNA. We find no evidence for the exchange-theoretic hypothesis that whereas participants address economic arguments to the TSOs, legal arguments are presented to the FNA. However, participants use the FNA’s consultation to criticize the TSO’s lack of responsiveness. This result suggests that state actors should be empowered to regulate private actors’ public participation practices
Determinants of subnational party positions on electricity grid expansion in Germany: Economic over political interests
No full textThe German energy transition necessitates the expansion of the electricity transmission grid. Grid expansion is governed jointly by the federal government and the governments of the subnational states. Conflicts often erupt about the routing of grid projects. This article asks how German subnational parties form their positions on grid expansion. Based on a quantitative analysis of party manifestos, we conclude that the position of the federal party has little influence. Instead, German subnational party preferences are shaped by the energy production structure of their state. The more wind energy a state produces, the more in favour of grid expansion are its parties. Thus, the conflict over grid expansion will most likely persist. The article highlights a paradox of energy policy in a federal system: German federalism has encouraged the expansion of renewable energies, but is detrimental to coherent grid expansion for their utilization
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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