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The Challenge of Gender Equality and Women's Rights in Francophone SubSaharan Africa. Brief notes from the Constitutional Courts of Madagascar and Senegal
No full text: The contribution addresses the issue of gender equality and protection of women's rights in
Francophone sub-Saharan Africa, analysing it in the prism of three decisions on the subject by the
constitutional courts of Madagascar and Senegal
La efectividad de la tutela judicial de los solicitantes de asilo en los tribunales europeos
No full textEl derecho a la nacionalidad en los sistemas regionales de proteccion de los derechos humanos
No full textL’obiettivo di questo articolo è quello di analizzare il contributo della Corte Europea dei Diritti dell’Uomo e della Corte Interamericana dei Diritti dell’Uomo alla garanzia del diritto alla cittadinanza e alla sua definizione come diritto umano.The aim of this article is to analyze the contribution of the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to the guarantee of the right to nationality and its definition as a human right.El objetivo de este artículo es analizar la contribución del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos y de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos a la garantía del derecho a la nacionalidad y su definición como derecho human
Constitutional Degradation in a Time of Coronavirus: Reflecting on Governmental Accountability in the United Kingdom and Italy
No full textThe pandemic acted as an accelerator of pre-existing trends that see an overall dominance of Governments over legislative bodies, which are increasingly struggling to oversee executive power. This was the case both in the UK and in Italy, where the governments adopted specific institutional arrangements to manage the health crisis which did not necessarily include a prior involvement of the legislative body. An overview of the legal framework and of the instruments that the two legal orders used to face the pandemic highlights a common trend, and that is the preference for executive law-making to manage emergencies. The way statutory instruments and statutory decrees are used respectively in the UK and in Italy are issues that pre-exist the pandemic, but an analysis of their use throughout the emergency particularly sheds light on specific structural weaknesses which are evident in both exceptional and normal times, and that relate to the two Parliaments' difficulties in keeping up with the executives' law-making activity. Considering that Parliament's inability to oversee Government gives rise to a series of problems which relate more generally to the institutional arrangement of a parliamentary democracy, it is necessary to reflect about Parliament's traditional functions and ask whether these are still adequate as the legal and political systems change. The oversight and steering functions still are one of the most fundamental and determining elements of a parliamentary form of government, but as the two experiences have showed, procedures need to be re-adapted as the Government has become the main legislative actor. For these reasons it is worth exploring post-legislative scrutiny as an instrument to hold the executive into account and to counterbalance its increasing monopoly of decision-making
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
El rol de la academia en la construcción de un nuevo programa común de estudios sobre la movilidad humana en la comunidad andina
No full textIl capitolo rappresenta l'introduzione al volume che raccoglie i contributi di esperti italiani e stranieri sul tema della migrazione con un focus specifico sulla migrazione venezuelana in America Latin
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
Undemocratic Threats in the African context: which lesson to be learned from the Benin turning?
No full textAppropriate 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
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