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Participatory budgeting in Germany and Italy
No full textThe book investigates public management and – more extensive – public governance innovations introduced in Italy in the past three decades. Empirical evidence on the content and strategies of reform is provided and the Italian specificities are highlighted. Public sector innovation in Italy has not benefited from a sustained political support and the wide–ranging agenda of reforms has suffered an “implementation gap”, characterizing legalistic countries. A particularly strong dynamism and vivacity of innovation has been registered in local services, healthcare and social assistance, education and cultural heritage management. In these sectors, the regional and local governments have developed relevant capacities of network management. A differentiated approach to innovation – in terms of speed and degree of change – in the different geographical areas and levels of government can be observed. It can be fully understood only by taking into consideration the administrative culture and history of our country. Denita Cepiku, PhD, is researcher in public administration and management at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. She has been assistant to the Chair of the Public Governance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) from 2002 to 2006.Marco Meneguzzo is professor in public and non profit management at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and at the University of Lugano (Switzerland).Mariastefania Senese, holds a PhD in public administration and management. She works as assistant at the public management chair at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. In 2007, she worked as a consultant at the Division for Public Administration and Development Management, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
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
Bürgerkommune: Was ist sie? Was soll sie sein? Was ist zu tun?
No full textLebenslanges Lernen und individuelle Beschäftigungsfähigkeit - dies sind die beiden zentralen Ziele der europäischen Beschäftigungsstrategie im Hinblick auf die Bildungs- und Berufsbildungspolitik. Interessant ist, welche Schwerpunkte die EU-Mitgliedstaaten setzen. Besonders deutlich wird das bei den Anstrengungen zur Bekämpfung der Jugendarbeitslosigkeit. Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt die deutsche Akzentsetzung heraus und gibt einen Überblick über die differenzierten Ansätze auf regionaler Ebene und über Aus- und Weiterbildung als Thema von Tarifverträgen und betrieblichen Vereinbarunge
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