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Dataset supporting thesis "The Policy Impacts of Public Participation"
No full textThis dataset demonstrates the coding (both crisp-set and fuzzy-set, where relevant) of 35 DI (Democratic Innovation) cases in the UK and Ireland.
There are six theorised causal conditions (State Leadership, presence of Civil Society Organisations, Policy Homogeneity, Left-Wing Politicians, Salience, and Partisan status) and one output (Policy Set).</span
The Naples Monitor
No full textWeekly newspaper from Naples, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising
The Naples Monitor
No full textWeekly newspaper from Naples, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising
The Naples Monitor
No full textWeekly newspaper from Naples, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising
The Naples Monitor
No full textWeekly newspaper from Naples, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising
The policy impacts of public participation
No full textThe democratic world is facing crises in representation, participation, and political legitimacy. An increasing number of governments and scholars are moving away from traditional conceptions of democracies, which revolve around regular elections and representative politicians, and hoping solutions can be found in the promise of democratic innovations in public participation. However, this field is novel, and little is known about when democratic innovations are successful at ameliorating these crises and the reasons as to why. Even seemingly simple concepts such as what ‘success’ ought to constitute are far from agreed upon. Focussing on cases in the UK and Ireland, this thesis uses cases drawn from the Participedia dataset, validated through comparison to official evaluator documentation, to determine what conditions facilitate policy-impacting success and which do not. Through a comparative analysis of 35 cases, this research argues that there is no one singular condition which makes or breaks a DI’s success, but rather a combination of conditions. The results show that successful policy-impacting is largely down to the preferences of target politicians, and that facilitating conditions merely act to attract or maintain these relationships. This suggests that DIs are still reliant on the elite political actors and institutions who have suffered from the losses of democratic trust and legitimacy. However, this need not be the case, and lessons from this thesis can be used to better design DIs and their political environment in the future.<br/
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
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