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Authority and equality: New Zealand at war and the 1943 furlough draft scheme
No full textIn 1943 the New Zealand Government initiated what became known as Furlough Draft Scheme. This brought back 6000 men of the 2nd New Zealand Division from the Middle East for three months leave. These men were all volunteers from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Echelons which had left New Zealand in 1940. Upon their return the men found New Zealand to be a very different place than the one they had left. Although the threat of Japanese invasion was now receding the exigencies of war had seen the social, military and industrial mobilisation of the entire population as well as the influx of a large number of American troops. After an initial enthusiastic welcome the furlough men gradually became disillusioned with what they perceived to be an apathetic society. Resentment over the belief that there was no equality of sacrifice grew to such an extent that eventually over 600 men would refuse to go back at the end of their period of furlough. By utilising the 1943 furlough strike this thesis examines the issues of military and political responsibility and demonstrates how the growth of authoritarianism clashed with the perceptions of equality and fairness
Cabinet selection 1960 to 1997: an overview of political process in New Zealand
No full textThis thesis analyses the selection of the 141 members of the Cabinets of the five governments of New Zealand, between December 1960 and December 1997. The thesis examines who was selected to be Ministers and considers why they were chosen. In some cases the thesis considers those who were eligible and were not selected, and speculates as to why they were left out. The study also looks at the nature of the various cabinet selections over the thirty-seven years, and at the differing methods of selection of the National and Labour parties.
'The main conclusions of the study are, firstly, that Cabinet selection has changed over time, in tune with the development and strengthening of the party system. Cabinet selection has become far less of a 'guessing game', now that 'shadow' Cabinets are a matter of practice for opposition parties. 'Politics' has also played an increasing part in selections, as the size of the executive has grown while government is reduced. As former Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer commented: 'you could probably run the [government] with twelve to fifteen ministers, anything more is just politics.' The increase of factionalism in both parties, although more particularly in Labour, has also had a consequent effect on later Cabinet selections. Secondly, the two party's methods of selection, while different, overall do not vary as much as others have argued. While, in the National party, the final choice still remains with the leader, the thesis has shown that they value the established practice of asking for their colleague's input, which has had an influence on the final selection.
While the thesis seeks to be a contribution to the field of New Zealand political history more generally, it is not the first piece of work to deal specifically with the New Zealand Cabinet. However, it is the first specific 'history' of Cabinet Selection, and utilises a wide range of secondary sources. A major primary source is the newspaper. An extensive analysis was made of press reports relating to Cabinet selection over the 37-year period. They almost always provided plenty of material on speculation of Cabinets and analysis of Cabinet make-ups. They also provided the best indicator of contemporary opinion on individuals and events. Each section was written using material from newspapers as its base. Predictions that each paper made were analysed and then assessed against the eventual outcome.
The central source material is, however, derived from interviews conducted with participants in the latter half of the period, 1972 to 1997. Guided by the methodology utilised by previous work, I have interviewed 22 former ministers to elicit their views about Cabinet Selection. Those interviewed included a member of the current Cabinet, the Speaker of the House, three Party Leaders, twelve Members of Parliament, three company chairmen, four former Deputy Prime Ministers (as well as the current one) and two former Prime Ministers. It speaks volumes about the continued accessibility of politicians in this country that the Acting Prime Minister could give up some of his time to be interviewed for this thesis. The number of people interviewed from each government worked on a sliding scale - starting with one Minister from Marshall Government of 1972 and working up to eleven Ministers from the last term of the National-New Zealand First Government, 1996 to 1999
Social Theory and Social History
No full textThis book is about the development of social history, and the complex relationship between social history and social theory. It offers an introduction to many of the most important social theorists, as well as current debates within historiography. As social history has continued to expand, historians have made greater use of the theoretical insights of social scientists. The book draws on specific detailed studies in order to present a reconceptualisation of the relationship between history and theory. The authors make the case for theoretically-informed history using a variety of primary and secondary texts. This is a jointly-authored book, and the writing was equally shared between the two author
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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