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The Personalization of Electoral Participation? : The Relationship Between Trait Evaluations of Presidential Candidates and Turnout Decisions in American Presidential Elections 1980–2020
No full textThe personalization thesis claims that leaders’ influence over voters has increased. While research consistently shows that candidates influence party choice, we know little about their effects on the prior decision to turn out in elections. This article represents the first study to examine the relationship between candidate trait evaluations and turnout decisions in the American context and the first longitudinal study of the phenomenon. The study utilizes ANES data to test three hypotheses drawn from theories on electoral participation and personalized politics in U.S. presidential elections between 1980 and 2020. The results show that while trait evaluations of Republican candidates consistently affect turnout, perceptions of Democratic candidates’ competence mobilize voters in specific elections. Moreover, individual polarization promotes turnout, particularly among partisan dealigned voters with different perceptions of the candidates’ competence. The results indicate a personalization of electoral participation that can benefit civic engagement and democratic quality.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Partival och sociala medier Avgjorde sociala medier valet 2014 för Feministiskt initiativ och Sverigedemokraterna?
No full textSyftet med denna kandidatuppsats är att undersöka vilken betydelse sociala medier hade för Feministiskt initiativ och Sverigedemokraterna i riksdagsvalet 2014. Mot bakgrund av att de nya medierna blivit en allt mer integrerad del i väljarnas mediekonsumtion och i partiernas
opinionsbildning, samt att något samband mellan partival och sociala medieanvändning inte undersökts av forskningen har jag undersökt hur partiernas potentiella väljare använde sociala medier och hur detta påverkade deras partival. Med utgångspunkt i teorier om hur mindre grupper har fördelar gentemot större grupper i att agera som ett kollektiv, hur detta kan användas i sociala medier för att skapa relationer mellan partiet och väljarna och hur attityder sprids inom sociala sammanhang argumenterar jag för att sociala medier kan ha betydelse för små partier i en etableringsfas. Materialet bygger på E-panelens webbenkäter som under 2014 skickade ut sex stycken enkäter innan valet och en efter. Detta ger möjlighet att studera unika individer, deras medievanor och attityder under den period som leder fram till det slutliga partivalet. Med statistisk metod analyserades vidare datan där resultaten visade hur aktivitet i sociala medier ökade sannolikheten för båda grupperna att rösta på Feministiskt initiativ respektive Sverigedemokraterna. Sociala medier visade sig dock ha större förklaringsvärde för den grupp som röstade på Feministiskt initiativ medan de potentiella Sverigedemokratiska väljarna i stor utsträckning röstade på partiet oberoende av aktivitet i sociala medier
THE REALITY AND DETERMINANTS OF STABLE ATTITUDES A Panel Data Analysis of Immigration Attitudes in Sweden 2011-2018
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