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Interest groups and political parties in issue politics
Full text linkInterest groups and political parties affect the outcomes of struggles around almost each and every political problem democratic societies may face. Their actions and interactions influence which issues receive political attention and how conflicts around these issues evolve. Democratic politics and policy making—in a large majority of cases—are politics and policymaking by interest groups and political parties. In this process, interest groups and parties play distinct roles, and their performances are characterized by certain strengths and flaws: Interest groups provide crucial information to political decisionmakers, but some societal interests are much less effectively represented through the interest group system than others. Political parties strive to control the power of government through elections and in this role make collectively binding decisions, but find it increasingly difficult to combine the responsibility that this entails with being responsive to the electorate. With this dissertation I answer the question how and why interest groups and political parties interact in several aspects of issue politics and what this tells us about the way they attenuate or aggravate each other’s normative strengths and flaws. I analyze the behavior of large numbers of interest groups and political parties in four established Western democracies and find that interest groups and parties interact in various unexpected ways when they engage in issue politics. Doing so, they are able to balance out each other’s flaws in many aspects. Unfortunately though, in other aspects they reinforce each other’s weaknesses and this poses a serious problem for democracy. <br/
Interest groups and political parties in issue politics
Full text linkInterest groups and political parties affect the outcomes of struggles around almost each and every political problem democratic societies may face. Their actions and interactions influence which issues receive political attention and how conflicts around these issues evolve. Democratic politics and policy making—in a large majority of cases—are politics and policymaking by interest groups and political parties. In this process, interest groups and parties play distinct roles, and their performances are characterized by certain strengths and flaws: Interest groups provide crucial information to political decisionmakers, but some societal interests are much less effectively represented through the interest group system than others. Political parties strive to control the power of government through elections and in this role make collectively binding decisions, but find it increasingly difficult to combine the responsibility that this entails with being responsive to the electorate. With this dissertation I answer the question how and why interest groups and political parties interact in several aspects of issue politics and what this tells us about the way they attenuate or aggravate each other’s normative strengths and flaws. I analyze the behavior of large numbers of interest groups and political parties in four established Western democracies and find that interest groups and parties interact in various unexpected ways when they engage in issue politics. Doing so, they are able to balance out each other’s flaws in many aspects. Unfortunately though, in other aspects they reinforce each other’s weaknesses and this poses a serious problem for democracy. <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
Dataset leden Provinciale en Gedeputeerde Staten 2018: Members of Dutch provincial parliaments and executives 2018
No full textDe dataset bevat online toegankelijke gegevens over leden van de Provinciale en Gedeputeerde Staten aan de vooravond van de verkiezingen van 2019. Deze gegevens zijn gebruikt voor het artikel 'Belangenverstrengeling ligt op de loer bij Provinciale Staten' van Thijs Broer verschenen in Vrij Nederland (februari 2019). Het gaat oa om demografische gegevens, opleiding, beroep/functies, nevenfuncties, contacten met maatschappelijk middenveld, politieke carrière en affiliatie, en portefeuilles/aandacht binnen de PS
EU Membership Norms and Decision-Making on Membership Eligibility
Full text linkOne of the most important determinants of the European Union’s role in international affairs is the community’ own definition of the border between states eligible for membership and states that are not eligible. Contrary to what one hears in official pronouncements, this definition has been repeatedly contested and changed significantly since the founding of the community. Prior research (Thomas 2017) has established that contestation from domestic and supranational forces within the community has changed the normative definition of the limits of Europe three times since the 1950s. This paper introduces a new database of all fifty EU decisions on membership eligibility of aspirant states from 1957 through 2017, some positive, some negative, and some reversing an earlier decision. It then uses three analytical techniques – cross-tabulation, regression, and qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) -- to evaluate the relative contribution of these changing membership norms, as compared to other legal, political and economic factors, to the EU decision-making in these fifty cases. All three methods indicate that membership norms exert a powerful effect on EU decisions that cannot be attributed to other factors. The Institutions of Politics; Design, Workings, and implications ( do not use, ended 1-1-2020
EU Decision-Making on Membership Eligibility: A Statistical Analysis
Full text linkOne of the most important determinants of the European Union’s role in international affairs is the community’ own definition of the border between states eligible for membership and states that are not eligible. Contrary to what one hears in official pronouncements, this definition has been repeatedly contested and changed significantly since the founding of the community. Prior research (Thomas 2017) has established that contestation from domestic and supranational forces within the community has changed the normative definition of the limits of Europe three times since the 1950s. This paper introduces a new database of all fifty EU decisions on membership eligibility of aspirant states from 1957 through 2017, some positive, some negative, and some reversing an earlier decision. It then uses three analytical techniques – cross-tabulation, regression, and qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) -- to evaluate the relative contribution of these changing membership norms, as compared to other legal, political and economic factors, to the EU decision-making in these fifty cases. All three methods indicate that membership norms exert a powerful effect on EU decisions that cannot be attributed to other factors. The Institutions of Politics; Design, Workings, and implications ( do not use, ended 1-1-2020
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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