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Periferie urbane e disagio socio-economico: com'è cambiato il voto degli italiani tra il 2008 e il 2018
No full textil capitolo analizza il rapporto tra partecipazione elettorale e dimensione socioeconomica sul territorio italiano. Il periodo elettorale di riferimento è il 2008-201
How and why is the COVID-19 crisis impacting trust in institutions? A two-wave longitudinal study in Italy
No full textUsing a quota panel of the adult Italian population
(N = 1,192), we conducted a two-wave longitudi-
nal study to analyse how and why the COVID-
19 crisis affected Italians’ trust in institutions.
Between May-June 2019 (before COVID-19) and
April 2020 (the peak of the pandemic), trust
in political institutions (political parties, parlia-
ment, and local administrations) and in super
partes national institutions (the President of the
Republic, the judiciary, and the police) increased,
whereas trust in international institutions (the
European Union and the United Nations)
decreased. A mediation model showed that anxi-
ety and collective angst were positively associated
with seeking information about COVID-19 from
institutional and relational sources. In turn, seek-
ing information from institutional sources further
increased trust in institutions, whereas seeking
information from social media and friends did
not. The same pattern held for trust in epistemic
authorities (the national health care system, civil
protection and scientists), which was measured
only in the second wave. These results suggest that
it is extremely important to pay attention to public
communication strategies, as they play a crucial
role in transforming individual and collective
distress in times of crisis into trust in institutions,
even net of the effect of information from rela-
tional sources. The strengths and limitations of
the study are discussed, and directions for possible
future research are suggested
Moving away from Populist Votes. The Role of Anxiety during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Full text linkWe analysed the relations between anxiety and populist votes, using information from a quota panel of the Italian adult population (N = 628), surveyed twice, in May-June 2019 (before the COVID-19 pandemic) and in April 2020 (at the peak of the pandemic). We found that vote instability rose between 2019 and 2020. The number of participants who moved away from populist parties was greater than that of participants who moved towards them. Moreover, the relation between anxiety and moving away from a populist vote was positive and significant, while that between anxiety and moving towards a populist vote did not reach statistical significance. Strengths, limitations and possible developments are discussed
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
An inquiry into urban peripheries, socio-economic distress and vote. The cases of Bologna, Florence and Rome
Full text linkThe weakening of traditional parties and of their territorial rooting which has occurred over the last decades has brought back the scholarly interest on the local dynamics, namely, on the social and political transformations involving local areas. An increasing number of scholars has therefore focused on the «peripheries», those urban areas that are traditionally associated with a high level of socio-economic distress, wherein inhabitants feel themselves as economically disadvantaged, socially marginalized and politically excluded. This paper is part of such research strand by investigating the variation in the electoral results in three Italian cities – Bologna, Florence, and Rome – in relation to the spatial distance from the urban centre and to the socio-economic distress. More notably, the paper answers two main questions: a) are the most distant areas from the historical centre also those with a higher level of socio-economic distress? b) what kind of relationship is there between voting and socio-economic distress, and how does such relation change over the post-crisis years? To answer these questions, we consider the results of four elections (parliamentary elections 2008, 2013, 2018; European elections 2019) in the three cities investigated, which are similarly characterized by an electoral decline of the Pd (but also of the Pdl/FI) to the benefit of M5s and League (and in part also of FdI), besides being located in central Italy. By using an original dataset combining socio-economic and electoral variables at the district level, the article analyzes the variation in the electoral support for the main Italian political parties, with a particular focus on both mainstream (Pd and Pdl/FI) and antiestablishment parties (M5s and League)
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
I flussi elettorali in altri sette comuni
No full textIn questo capitolo sono presentate le stime dei flussi elettorali in alcuni delle altre città che hanno votato il 5 e il 19 giugno. Ogni comune è trattato brevemente con una tabella che riporta i flussi elettorali calcolati sul totale dell’elettorato, e il confronto è fatto con le elezioni politiche del 2013. Per i comuni che hanno dovuto ricorrere al ballottaggio sono presentate anche le stime dei flussi tra primo e secondo turno. I risultati emergenti forniscono indicazioni rilevanti per comprendere le dinamiche sottostanti il voto locale e le scelte degli elettori
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
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