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Una policy per la governance collaborativa e la sussidiarietà orizzontale: il Regolamento per la cura dei beni comuni
Full text linkQuesta ricerca verte sulla comprensione dell’adozione del Regolamento per la cura dei beni comuni, un dispositivo legislativo per il governo locale recentemente diffuso in un consistente numero di comuni italiani. Di questo fenomeno è proposto un bilancio basato su alcuni dati riguardanti la diffusione e le logiche che ne hanno determinato l’adozione. Questo contributo tenta di fornire un tentativo di analisi della relazione tra le tre dimensioni della politica (politics, policy e polity) collegando alcuni strumenti analitici, qualitativi e quantitativi, con i modelli di riferimento che hanno elaborato direttamente le policy. Questi modelli sono stati a loro volta ricondotti ai paradigmi teorici di riferimento per stabilirne la genesi in un’ideale opera di decostruzione e ricostruzione del framework in cui i concetti di beni comuni, governance collaborativa o partecipativa, prendono significato e diventano operativi. La chiave per penetrare il rapporto tra amministrazione, teoria e politica è stata individuata in dei particolari strumenti di policy, i Regolamenti per l’amministrazione condivisa dei beni comuni, dei dispositivi normati adottati da un significativo numero di amministrazioni comunali italiane attraverso delle delibere di consiglio comunale, sulla base del “Regolamento sulla collaborazione tra cittadini e amministrazione per la cura e la rigenerazione dei beni comuni urbani” approvato dal Consiglio Comunale di Bologna nel maggio 2014. Nella ricerca sono indagati i Regolamenti dal punto di vista del loro portato teorico attraverso l’analisi dei due principali modelli che li hanno ispirati cioè l’amministrazione condivisa e la governance collaborativa. Sono quindi state analizzate le loro caratteristiche come policy locale, la loro diffusione e le motivazioni che hanno spinto i governi locali a deciderne l’adozione. Le domande a cui si è cercato di rispondere riguardano la congruenza tra la visione teorica e il reale funzionamento della policy. L’ipotesi che la ricerca ha tentato di verificare è, quindi, se il Regolamento rappresenti uno strumento di cambiamento sociale e politico in grado di rivitalizzare la democrazia a più livelli. Questa ipotesi avrebbe trovato suffragio nella constatazione della diffusione ed utilizzo del Regolamento in contesti storicamente caratterizzati da basso capitale sociale o indice di benessere e qualità della vita. La ricerca empirica ha invece evidenziato come il Regolamento sia maggiormente diffuso e utilizzato nelle città del Nord e di dimensioni medio-grandi (dove è mediamente più ricca l’offerta di servizi locali). Anche il riscontro elettorale non ha dimostrato una capacità significativa del Regolamento di generare consenso, come se la diffusione di uno strumento di partecipazione alla gestione locale non alimentasse la vicinanza dei cittadini alla vita politica. La realtà analizzata coincide quindi solo in parte con le prescrizioni delle teorie di riferimento che immaginano il governo locale come un sistema semplificato in cui agiscono attori coerenti, animati dalla medesima volontà e per cui i limiti delle teorie generali dell’amministrazione e delle politiche pubbliche potrebbero essere superati utilizzando le teorie sui beni comuni e la governance collaborativa
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
From participatory governance to civic collaboration for the urban commons: a case study on the Rome municipality
No full textThere is a very high interest in international literature about the governance of common
goods related to a redefinition of representative democracy. Scholars like Sheila Foster and Christian
Iaione have proposed new models of governance enhancing the preservation and management of the
commons in order to overcome problems and contradictions of complex contemporary cities, such as
social exclusion and land privatisation. The aim of this paper is to verify, through a recognition of ad-
ministrative documents, if in the example of Rome, the political actors, the municipal government, and
the civil society, could be able to take part in a collaborative governance inspired reform. To answer this
question, the relationship between the policy making process, the economic production model and the
normative claims arising from social groups will be investigated. What is emerging is a difficulty of the
administration in implementing collaborative principles. This is reflected in the issuance of discordant
administrative measures, stemming from problems in relaying to civil society and active citizens the
role that these principles assign. The reasons for this mismatching might be identified in the distinctive
urban regime of Rome and the political and economic set that fosters social exclusion and does not
consider the positive effects and the value of collaborative-oriented policy, enhancing sharing economy
and social cohesion. The constant recall in the political discourse of concepts such as common goods,
citizen’s participation and collaboration values takes the characteristics of a discursive resource, a ‘com-
mon washing’, which institutions and politics seem to re-propose and consolidate the traditional mode
of public action, though apparently declaring its inadequacy and ineffectiveness
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