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Replication Data for: Diasporic Foreign Policy Interest Groups in the US: Democracy, Conflict, and Political Entrepreneurship
No full textWhy do some immigrant diasporas in the United States (US) establish foreign policy interest groups while others do not? While scholars have demonstrated that diasporic interest groups often successfully influence US foreign policy, we take a step back to ask why only certain diasporas attempt to do so in the first place. We argue that two factors increase the likelihood of diaspora mobilization: a community’s experience with democratic governance and conflict in its country of origin. We posit that these conditions make it more likely that political entrepreneurs emerge to serve as catalysts for top-down mobilization. To test our hypotheses, we collect and analyze novel data on diasporic interest groups as well as the characteristics of their respective countries of origin. In turn, we conduct the first in-depth case studies of the historical and contemporary Indian-American lobbies, using original archival and interview evidence
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
Open and Shut Cases: Irregular Migration Management and Policy Convergence in the European Union
No full textPh.D.Why have European states adopted similar approaches to managing irregular migration? Existing explanations of migration policy development posit that the relative political power of interest groups that are favorably or adversely affected by migration determines the content of policy outputs. Given substantial heterogeneity in the power of relevant interest groups across European states, the fact that they have adopted similar approaches is surprising.I argue that this convergence is the result of European integration, even though governance of migration has been a jealously guarded prerogative of national governments. Specifically, I posit that the proposed creation of a borderless travel area raised (unfounded) concerns that divergent national migration policies would engender greater irregular migration. Powerful member states which held this belief threatened to exclude their unconcerned partners from the benefits of integration into the Schengen Area and made accession into it contingent on the adoption of their preferred coercive approaches to managing irregular migration. This engendered convergence even in the absence of binding EU legislation. Beyond the specific case of the Schengen Area, I argue that beliefs in externalities and threats of exclusion are two factors which shape the integration of any group of states. They thus form the central components of my novel “neo-intergovernmentalist” theory of integration.To assess the validity of my arguments, I execute a mixed-method research design. First, I develop a typology of approaches to irregular migration management. I then construct a novel dataset which codes the irregular migration polices adopted by 16 European states from 1945 to 2016. Using this dataset, I show that European states converged towards what I call punishing and suffocating approaches over time and that reliance on these approaches is correlated with membership in the Schengen Area. In turn, using original archival sources, I examine the evolution of inter-state negotiations regarding irregular migration. I demonstrate that beliefs in externalities and threats of exclusion best explain why convergence occurred in contrast to potential alternative explanations. Altogether, my findings contribute to our understanding of migration policy development, policy diffusion, and inter-state integration
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
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