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Replication Data for: The Intrastate Contagion of Ethnic Civil War
No full textStudies of civil war have shown the strategic influence of geography and space on the occurrence of conflict. While civil wars cluster and spread between states in international neighborhoods, ethnic groups within states consider their geography and location in choosing to foment rebellion. In answering why some ethnic groups turn to civil war, I unify and build on these ideas to develop a theory that ethnic civil wars follow patterns of contagion within states. I contend that ongoing conflicts in groups’ geographic proximity provides increased logistic and strategic opportunity for successful rebellion. Using spatially-weighted regressions, I find evidence that ethnic civil wars are contagious within states and that such intrastate contagion is robust to other intra and interstate neighborhood effects that may alter groups’ calculus of rebellion. These insights consistently demonstrate that accounting for groups’ broader strategic surroundings yields important implications for the study of civil war
Replication Data for: The Intrastate Contagion of Ethnic Civil War
No full textStudies of civil war have shown the strategic influence of geography and space on the occurrence of conflict. While civil wars cluster and spread between states in international neighborhoods, ethnic groups within states consider their geography and location in choosing to foment rebellion. In answering why some ethnic groups turn to civil war, I unify and build on these ideas to develop a theory that ethnic civil wars follow patterns of contagion within states. I contend that ongoing conflicts in groups’ geographic proximity provides increased logistic and strategic opportunity for successful rebellion. Using spatially-weighted regressions, I find evidence that ethnic civil wars are contagious within states and that such intrastate contagion is robust to other intra and interstate neighborhood effects that may alter groups’ calculus of rebellion. These insights consistently demonstrate that accounting for groups’ broader strategic surroundings yields important implications for the study of civil war
Replication Data for: The Intrastate Contagion of Ethnic Civil War
No full textStudies of civil war have shown the strategic influence of geography and space on the occurrence of conflict. While civil wars cluster and spread between states in international neighborhoods, ethnic groups within states consider their geography and location in choosing to foment rebellion. In answering why some ethnic groups turn to civil war, I unify and build on these ideas to develop a theory that ethnic civil wars follow patterns of contagion within states. I contend that ongoing conflicts in groups' geographic proximity provides increased logistic and strategic opportunity for successful rebellion. Using spatially-weighted regressions, I find evidence that ethnic civil wars are contagious within states and that such intrastate contagion is robust to other intra and interstate neighborhood effects that may alter groups' calculus of rebellion. These insights consistently demonstrate that accounting for groups' broader strategic surroundings yields important implications for the study of civil war
Replication Data for: The Intrastate Contagion of Ethnic Civil War
No full textStudies of civil war have shown the strategic influence of geography and space on the occurrence of conflict. While civil wars cluster and spread between states in international neighborhoods, ethnic groups within states consider their geography and location in choosing to foment rebellion. In answering why some ethnic groups turn to civil war, I unify and build on these ideas to develop a theory that ethnic civil wars follow patterns of contagion within states. I contend that ongoing conflicts in groups' geographic proximity provides increased logistic and strategic opportunity for successful rebellion. Using spatially-weighted regressions, I find evidence that ethnic civil wars are contagious within states and that such intrastate contagion is robust to other intra and interstate neighborhood effects that may alter groups' calculus of rebellion. These insights consistently demonstrate that accounting for groups' broader strategic surroundings yields important implications for the study of civil war
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
Natural Disaster Crisis Communication by FEMA and Red Cross Via Twitter During Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Lane, Matthew, and Michael
Full text linkThis thesis examined the way disaster relief agencies, FEMA and Red Cross, communicated during natural hazards at the national and regional levels. Using tweets from the weeks of hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Lane, Matthew, and Michael, I assessed how well the agencies communicated with the public in the wake of a storm. This research utilized crisis communication theory and disaster management theory. The tweets were coded according to a standard model of crisis communication and analyzed using SPSS software. The results found that FEMA national was the agency that followed the crisis communication model the best, while Red Cross national had the least content in line with the model
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
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