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Quasi-experimental panel study testing the effects of a Dutch on-site citizenship education program on democratic engagement
No full textThis paper-and-pencil survey data is collected as part of a dissertation project on the effectiveness of on-site citizenship education on (inequalities in) democratic engagement. The hypothesized causal effects of on-site citizenship programs are tested by comparing the democratic engagement of students that did and did not yet participate in the main Dutch on-site citizenship program. The quasi-experimental data consists of four waves among 585 students in thirty classes and three schools, and allows for controlling for pre-test sensitization and time period by means of a Solomon four group design. The results show that the high expectations of on-site citizenship education need to be tempered: the main Dutch on-site citizenship program has a robust and lasting effect on political knowledge, but not on political attitudes and behaviors. Moreover, the program generally does not reduce pre-existing inequalities
Quasi-experimental panel study testing the effects of a Dutch on-site citizenship education program on democratic engagement
No full textThis paper-and-pencil survey data is collected as part of a dissertation project on the effectiveness of on-site citizenship education on (inequalities in) democratic engagement. The hypothesized causal effects of on-site citizenship programs are tested by comparing the democratic engagement of students that did and did not yet participate in the main Dutch on-site citizenship program. The quasi-experimental data consists of four waves among 585 students in thirty classes and three schools, and allows for controlling for pre-test sensitization and time period by means of a Solomon four group design. The results show that the high expectations of on-site citizenship education need to be tempered: the main Dutch on-site citizenship program has a robust and lasting effect on political knowledge, but not on political attitudes and behaviors. Moreover, the program generally does not reduce pre-existing inequalities
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
Mind the gap!:Inequalities in democratic support among adolescents
No full textInequalities in democratic support are undesirable. When certain groups are less engaged in democracy, their interests will be underrepresented, leading to suboptimal democratic outcomes for these groups. However, large inequalities in democratic support are found, especially based on educational attainment. In order for governments to design and time policy interventions that are aimed at mitigating these inequalities more effectively, it is important to have a better understanding of their origins and the way they develop. This dissertation therefore studies the origins of inequalities in democratic support among young people. The results show that Dutch adolescents generally support democracy, reject non-democratic alternatives, endorse core democratic values and intend to participate in the political process. It is quite worrisome, however, that the educational gap in democratic support that is observed among adults is already present from a young age, and proves to be quite stable and persistent. The findings in this dissertation show that these inequalities originate at least to some extent in the period before secondary education, and are not easily remedied by (on-site) citizenship education
Mind the gap!:Inequalities in democratic support among adolescents
Full text linkInequalities in democratic support are undesirable. When certain groups are less engaged in democracy, their interests will be underrepresented, leading to suboptimal democratic outcomes for these groups. However, large inequalities in democratic support are found, especially based on educational attainment. In order for governments to design and time policy interventions that are aimed at mitigating these inequalities more effectively, it is important to have a better understanding of their origins and the way they develop. This dissertation therefore studies the origins of inequalities in democratic support among young people. The results show that Dutch adolescents generally support democracy, reject non-democratic alternatives, endorse core democratic values and intend to participate in the political process. It is quite worrisome, however, that the educational gap in democratic support that is observed among adults is already present from a young age, and proves to be quite stable and persistent. The findings in this dissertation show that these inequalities originate at least to some extent in the period before secondary education, and are not easily remedied by (on-site) citizenship education
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
On-site citizenship education:an effective way of boosting democratic engagement and reducing inequalities among young people?
Full text linkIn response to concerns about a lack of democratic engagement among youngsters, many governments intensify their efforts to stimulate democratic engagement and reduce inequalities between advantaged and disadvantaged adolescents. One of the ways in which they try to do this is by on-site citizenship education programs. These include visits to a government institution, interaction with government officials and the reenactment of government institutions. Yet, it remains unclear whether these programs actually boost democratic engagement and compensate inequalities in democratic engagement. This study explores the effect of on-site citizenship education on (inequalities in) democratic engagement. In order to ensure that potential effects are truly attributable to the on-site citizenship program, I isolate the hypothesized causal effects by employing a quasi-experimental design with Difference-in-Difference estimation, reducing selection effects, and controlling for pre-test sensitization and time period. Moreover, I assessed whether the effects last over the course of a school year. The newly collected data consist of four waves among 585 students in thirty classes and three schools. The results show that the high expectations of on-site citizenship education need to be tempered: the main Dutch on-site citizenship program has a robust and lasting effect on political knowledge, but not on political attitudes and behaviors. Moreover, the program generally does not reduce pre-existing inequalities
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