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Party Politics / The effect of radical right fringe parties on main parties in Central and Eastern Europe : Empirical evidence from manifesto data
Full text linkDo radical right fringe parties affect main parties in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)? Using data from the Manifesto Project, we analyze the relationship between radical right fringe parties’ and main parties’ policy programs regarding sociocultural issues in six post-communist countries of CEE. Even though radical right fringe parties have participated in government in several of these countries, and in Hungary a fringe party has become the country’s second largest party, our analysis shows that the sociocultural issues in radical right fringe party manifestos do not systematically relate to the changes in main party manifestos regarding those issues. Even if some of the main parties in our study might often agree with the radical right fringe parties, our analysis shows that the latter do not directly influence the policy priorities of the main parties
Environmental movement activism in the Western Balkans: evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina
No full textThe celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall provoked a debate on the outcomes of the transition process in the post-communist countries, including a debate on the functioning of civil society. This provided a good opportunity for researchers to collect new data and revise the discourse on collective action and the dynamics of civil society in these countries. Jacobsson and Saxonberg's collection of essays looks at social movements, and their forms of mobilization and organization, as well as action repertoires in relation to the social context, and their success or failure. The book meets an important need in the discourse on post-communist social movements by going beyond the usual discourse about the weak and non-participatory civil society in the post-communist context. This book gives a nuanced and updated view of social movements in post-communist Europe, by looking at the cases of relatively successful mobilization, by examining groups that have often been neglected in the discourse on social movements and civil society (including animal-rights groups, racist movements and non-feminist family organizations), and by giving a deeper analysis of the different strategies that civil society organizations and groups can use. Rather than expecting social movements in post-communist Europe to follow the same patterns and operate in the same fashion as in Western Europe, this volume shows that a wider view of contentious action is needed in order to understand the variety of strategies employed by collective actors operating in this context
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
Emotional narratives. Populism and nostalgia in Europe
No full textWhat is meant by affective dimension of populism? Starting from the "anatomical model" proposed by Pierre Rosanvallon, every populist political culture is characterized by some specific elements, including the presence of a regime of passions and emotions. This proposal focuses on the analysis of the role played by a specific emotion that is nostalgia. It is considered as an extremely complex emotional condition which can contain in itself a set of mixed emotions. Is not a negative or positive emotion in an absolute sense, but it assumes different connotations according to the contexts and depending on how it is used (Boym 2001). How do nostalgia and populist politics relate? The present analysis aims to investigate this affective aspect of populism, deepening the link that holds together emotions, politics and time. Some recent studies have found a situation of “global nostalgia” which has had several implications for democracy and politics. In the last years, the various forms of populism use nostalgia as an essential tool of their narration, exploiting its affective potential. How is nostalgia used in populist discourse? Holding together studies of political theory and social psychology, this proposal focuses on the role of nostalgia in the construction of identity dynamics, at the individual and collective level, and on its role in political and social mobilization. Particular attention will be given to the European context, characterized by populisms also extremely different from each other. In this sense, are there differences between right-wing populism and left-wing populism? Svetlana Boym explains the ambivalence of the nostalgic phenomenon through the difference between “restorative nostalgia” and “reflective nostalgia”: the first proposes the image of a past to be recovered to cope with the decadence of the present, as a glorious time to be restored; the second, instead, accept the past as such and acts in a progressive and optimistic way towards the future. Taking account of these differences, much of the literature on the subject seems to agree in recognizing the affective power of nostalgia especially in right-wing populism. Right-wing populism promotes a narrative of a world in crisis due to economic, moral and cultural problems (Inglehart & Norris, 2016; Taggart, 2004, p. 275). After having underlined the different link with the past and the different affective investment, the following proposal intends to focus on the strategies of populist radical right (PRR) parties of Europe and on the emotions aroused by their use of nostalgia. What does nostalgia bring about in right-wing populism? What are the most used emotions and what do they represent for democracies
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
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