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sj-pdf-1-eup-10.1177_14651165241239637 - Supplemental material for An open window into politics: A structured database of plenary sessions of the European Parliament
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-eup-10.1177_14651165241239637 for An open window into politics: A structured database of plenary sessions of the European Parliament by Camille Tremblay-Antoine, Steve Jacob, Yannick Dufresne, Patrick Poncet and Shannon Dinan in European Union Politics</p
sj-zip-3-eup-10.1177_14651165241239637 - Supplemental material for An open window into politics: A structured database of plenary sessions of the European Parliament
No full textSupplemental material, sj-zip-3-eup-10.1177_14651165241239637 for An open window into politics: A structured database of plenary sessions of the European Parliament by Camille Tremblay-Antoine, Steve Jacob, Yannick Dufresne, Patrick Poncet and Shannon Dinan in European Union Politics</p
Federalism and Policy Design in Two Liberal Welfare State Regimes: Comparing the Politics of Labour Market Policies in Canada and the United States
No full textThis paper explores the relationship between federalism and the policy design of labour market policies in two liberal welfare state regimes – Canada and the United States – addressing the following research question: How do variations in policy design intersect with federalism in both countries and how can these variations provide powerful, self-reinforcing or self-undermining feedback effects over time? Combining the literatures on the varieties of federalism, the liberal welfare regime, and policy design and feedback, the paper shows that paying close attention to federalism is necessary to understand diverse national policy designs that produce self-reinforcing feedback effects over time.</p
Federalism and Policy Design in Two Liberal Welfare State Regimes: Comparing the Politics of Labour Market Policies in Canada and the United States
No full textThis paper explores the relationship between federalism and the policy design of labour market policies in two liberal welfare state regimes – Canada and the United States – addressing the following research question: How do variations in policy design intersect with federalism in both countries and how can these variations provide powerful, self-reinforcing or self-undermining feedback effects over time? Combining the literatures on the varieties of federalism, the liberal welfare regime, and policy design and feedback, the paper shows that paying close attention to federalism is necessary to understand diverse national policy designs that produce self-reinforcing feedback effects over time.</p
Historical Institutionalism and Transnational Influence: Social Policy Responses to the Great Depression in the United States and Canada
No full textThe Great Depression was a turning point in the development of social programming in NorthAmerica. This paper explores the politics of social policy expansion during the Great Depressionin the United States and Canada through an analytical lens that combines the insights ofhistorical institutionalism and the analysis of transnational processes. Thus, the paper focuses onthe differences between these two cases as distinct entities as well as how they were shaped by,and influenced one another through, transnational processes. This combination of historicalinstitutionalism and close attention to transnational processes adds insight to the existingscholarship on the politics of welfare state development that tends to prioritize one perspectiveover the other. Empirically, the paper compares these politics in two discrete social policy areas:old-age pensions and unemployment insurance. The puzzle tackled is the following: why did theU.S. federal government create new programs in these areas during the 1930s while Canada didnot; and, simultaneously, how did these U.S. policy developments influence Canada during andbeyond that decade alongside other transnational trends and processes? As argued, the distincttiming and pace of reform and the role of courts explain why Canada did not implement majorpublic pension and unemployment programs during the Great Depression. This contrasts with theU.S., where the advent of the New Deal led to the creation of a federal pension program and adecentralized system of unemployment insurance. Over time, these policy innovations impactedwelfare state development in Canada through transnational influence.</p
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
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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