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'Kings among their subjects'? Ernst Thälmann, Harry Pollitt and the leadership cult as Stalinization
Full text linkThe cogency and distinctiveness of Weber’s original concept of Stalinization lay in its precision. At a general level, several defining features of the Stalinized communist parties could already be regarded as axiomatic. Disciplined and centralized, according to the precepts of democratic centralism, through the projection of these characteristics internationally these parties always accepted the ultimate authority of the Communist International (Comintern) and explicitly prioritized the interests of the Soviet Union. Few now question that there is more to the history of communism than this. Nevertheless, as a description of its organizational modus operandi these issues are no more the subject of serious contention than the dates — ever sparser — of Comintern congresses or the location of its headquarters in Moscow. The problem with much historical literature on communist parties, even in quite sophisticated variants, is how much of it fails to get beyond such description and its thickening into narrative. Stalinism, conceived as this relationship of centralization and subordination, continues to be seen as providing both description and explanation — which means, in the last analysis, that nothing is explained. Easy exposition leads to easy refutation, and debates within the literature not infrequently have a ritualistic character
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
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