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sj-pdf-1-psx-10.1177_00323217231220127 – Supplemental material for The Group Appeal Strategy: Beyond the Policy Perspective on Party Electoral Success
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-psx-10.1177_00323217231220127 for The Group Appeal Strategy: Beyond the Policy Perspective on Party Electoral Success by Mads Thau in Political Studies</p
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
How Political Parties Use Group-Based Appeals: Evidence from Britain 1964–2015
No full textPolitical parties often appeal to groups. Yet, existing work does not consider how such group-based appeals are used, presumably because they are thought to have grown ineffective. Contrary to this, I argue that group-based appeals are central to party electoral strategy, and that time has only strengthened the incentive to use them. Using original data on 10,000 group-based appeals found in sentence-by-sentence coding of British election manifestos, I demonstrate an increasing use of group-based appeals from 1964 to 2015. Furthermore, I show that the range of groups emphasized, the concentration of group emphasis, and the specific group categories targeted also follow the electoral incentives prevalent over this 50-year period. These findings shed new light on how political parties appeal for votes and suggest that we view group-based appeals as a distinctive feature of party electoral strategy. I discuss the implications for our broader understanding of electoral competition.</jats:p
Public Scandals and User Satisfaction with Public Services
No full textThis research aims to test the effect of public scandals on user satisfaction. Specifically, we want to estimate the effect of a large-scale embezzlement scandal in the Danish National Board of Social Services (NBSS) in 2018 on public service satisfaction among NBSS users. We use a two-wave survey conducted in 2018 and 2020
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
Does Intergroup Bias Shape Teamwork Perceptions among Public Service Professionals?
No full textThis research gauges the ingroup favoritism occurring in public service professionals' attitudes towards teamwork with other professionals and tests whether such group bias works though universal trait impressions about warmth and competence. We use a moderation-of-process design in which we manipulate both treatments and mediators to minimize the confounding that often plague mediation analyses. Specifically, a large-scale survey randomly assigns Danish school teachers to one of six conditions (falling within two treatment arms) that describe fictitious teamwork situations in which the teacher respondent has to collaborate in a working group. In the "natural process" treatment arm, teachers either collaborate with other teachers from their own school (ingroup condition) or various other professions from outside their school (outgroup condition). This establishes a baseline group bias effect. In the "interrupted process" treatment arm, cues about the warmth and competence of the other participants in the working group are then added to the ingroup and outgroup vignettes, yielding four additional conditions (ingroup+warmth; outgroup+warmth; ingroup+competence; outgroup+competence). To the extent that basic trait impressions drive group bias in teamwork attitudes, the ingroup-vs-outgroup effect should be lower when warmth and competence cues are provided, than when they are not, because these cues overwrite the process leading to the group bias observed in the baseline
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