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Pension Reform in Europe : Process and Progress
No full textPension reform is an important topic,
high on the agendas of most European countries, where
countries are profoundly affected by an aging population,
the result of lower fertility, and increased life
expectancy, changes in family structure, and the effects of
globalization. The book presents seven papers on the
political economy of European pension reform, where clearly,
major reforms are needed, to ensure the sustainability of
retirement income systems. However, reform programs will
need to combine measures to delay retirement; introduce
changes in the benefit structure; and, diversify the sources
of retirement income, to better balance individuals'
risks. Subjects address the need to accelerate the European
pension reform agenda, and compares the making of pension
privatization in Latin America with that in Eastern Europe.
Furthermore, subjects look at democracy and structural
pension reform in continental Europe, focusing on the aging
population, the electoral behavior, and early retirement
impacts, on the basis of commitment, and consensus - or the
lack thereof - to pension reform. Most interestingly, one of
the subjects questions, and further analyzes, the wide
differences of social policy models among transition
economies, to finalize with a look at the diffusion of
pension innovation. These subjects provide insight into the
process, and progress of European pension reform, to the
benefit of the reform agenda in other regions as well
THE POLITICAL SUCCESS OF NEO-LIBERALISM IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Full text link"The Czech Republic is emerging as a vast exception to the post-socialist political development of Eastern and Central Europe." Drawing political parallels between the Czech Republic and other members of the Vikgrad group of countries, the author explains the continuing popularity of neo-liberal politics in the Czech Republic and some of the policies deployed to achieve it: unemployment control and wage regulation, bankruptcy prevention, social safety nets, and active labor market policies. Many of these policies, although inconsistent with the Thatcherite rhetoric of the government, form the backbone of its popular support. The privatization program, its adept implementation by the government, and its contribution to government popularity are also described. The sociological consequences of these political actions are discussed with reference to the Czech transformation; the author defines important public attitudes and describes how the population was prepared to make compromises, thus indicating the degree of confidence in the government. In conclusion, political culture and economic strength are recognized as integral parts of this complicated reform, whose success the author attributes to its social acceptability with regard to the voters, and to the skill of the government in its implementation
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
[Book Review] The Politics of Neoliberalism (in Europe’s Periphery)
Full text linkBooks reviewed: Appel, Hilary; Orenstein, Mitchell A.: From Triumph to Crisis: Neoliberal Economic Reform in Postcommunist Countries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018) / Maron, Asa; Shalev, Michael (eds.): Neoliberalism as a State Project: Changing the Political Economy of Israel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) / Ban, Cornell: Ruling Ideas: How Global Neoliberalism Goes Local (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016
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