Estimating Intra-Party Preferences: Comparing Speeches to Votes

Well-established methods exist for measuring party positions, but reliable means for estimating intra-party preferences remain underdeveloped. While most efforts focus on estimating the ideal points of individual legislators based on inductive scaling of roll call votes, this data suffers from two problems: selection bias due to unrecorded votes and strong party discipline, which tends to make voting a strategic rather than a sincere indication of preferences. By contrast, legislative speeches are relatively unconstrained, as party leaders are less likely to punish MPs for speaking freely as long as they vote with the party line. Yet, the differences between roll call estimations and text scalings remain essentially unexplored, despite the growing application of statistical analysis of textual data to measure policy preferences. Our paper addresses this lacuna by exploiting a rich feature of the Swiss legislature: on most bills, legislators both vote and speak many times. Using this data, we compare text-based scaling of ideal points to vote-based scaling from a crucial piece of energy legislation. Our findings confirm that text scalings reveal larger intra-party differences than roll calls. Using regression models, we further explain the differences between roll call and text scalings by attributing differences to constituency-level preferences for energy policy.

Systemic evaluation - a contribution to Swiss development research

Systemic thinking may be traced hack to several roots. Some of them can he found in Taoism, the basic concepts of which are the achievement of cosmic harmony and a well-balanced social order. Others can be found in Greek philosophy. Similarly, modern physics in its most advanced branches is now recognizing basic aspects of these same roots in a scientific guise. The more the process of research and theory building advances, the more phenomena are recognized as complex and interdependent with other phenomena. Interdisciplinary research and the constitution of new disciplines are contributing to a scientific approximation of integral reality, which is becoming more and more like the one everyone knows as prescientific. The transcendence of the narrow boundaries of positivist sciences seems to be becoming a necessity for scientific evolution. The ecological crisis of the twentieth century may itself lead to increased systemic thinking, and it is in full awareness of the fact that there are no simple solutions that the systemic evaluator tries to cope with the problems of the dynamics of social and political interventions in the Third World as a means of development co-operation..

Na 1 Nachlass Max Horkheimer, 661 - Berichte über die Arbeit des Instituts für Sozialforschung, "Research-Project on Anti-Semitism" u.a. (p. IX 78-IX 92.1a)

"Institut für Sozialforschung: Research Projects", Tabellarische Zusammenstellung (Juni 1953), Typoskript, 2 Blatt; "Institut für Sozialforschung an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany: Memorandum" (1953), a) Typoskript, 12 Blatt, b) Typoskript, 13 Blatt; "Projects of the Institute for Social Research" (1.7.1954), Typoskript, 5 Blatt; "Institut für Soziaforschung: Mitteilungen an die Presse" (November 1955), als Typoskript vervielfältigt, 6 Blatt; Clark: "Institut für Sozialforschung an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main" (etwa 1955), Typoskript, englisch, mit handschriftlichen Korrekturen, unter anderem von Max Horkheimer, 2 Blatt; "Institut für Sozialforschung" (6.3.1958), a) als Typoskript vervielfältigt, 10 Blatt, b) Typoskript, 22 Blatt, c) Kurzfassung, Typoskript, 3 Blatt, d) Teilstück, Typoskript, 1 Blatt, e) Sonderdruck, 15 Seiten; Abgeschlossene und laufende Arbeiten des Instituts. Tabellarische Zusammenstellung (1958?), Typoskript, 1 Blatt; "Laufende Studien" Tabellarische Aufstellung (25.5.1961), Typoskript, 1 Blatt; Friedrich Pollock (?): Anmerkungen zu Paul Klukes Darstellung des Instituts für Sozialforschung in dessen "Geschichte der Frankfurter Universität" (8.9.1969), Typoskript mit handschriftlichen Korrekturen, 4 Blatt; Theodor W. Adorno: Über die Arbeiten des Instituts für Sozialforschung (Datierung unklar, etwa 1941-45), Teilstück eines Entwurfs, Typoskript mit eigenhändiger Korrektur, 2 Blatt; Über die wesentliche Aufgabe des Instituts: Vereinigung geisteswissenschaftlicher und empirischer Methoden (Datierung unklar), Typoskript, 1 Blatt; "Forschungsprojekte des Instituts" (Datierung unklar, etwa 1950), Typoskript mit handschriftlichen Ergänzungen von Friedrich Pollock, 5 Blatt; "Vorträge im Institut für Sozialforschung. Einladungen und tabellarische Aufstellungen" (1953 u.a.), 5 Blatt; "Vorlesungen und Übungen im Institut für Sozialforschung, Ankündigungen aus den Jahren 1952-64, 9 Blatt; "International Institute of Social Research: Research-Project on Anti-Semitism" (1939-42) (veröffentlicht in Studies in Philosophy and Social Science Bd. IX, 1941, S. 124-143): 1. "Research Project on Anti-Semitism", a) Typoskript, 45 Blatt;

Na 1 Nachlass Max Horkheimer, 662 - "Research Project on Anti-Semitism" (p. IX 92.1b-IX 92.1d)

"International Institute of Social Research: Research-Project on Anti-Semitism" (1939-42) (veröffentlicht in Studies in Philosophy and Social Science Bd. IX, 1941, S. 124-143): 1. "Research Project on Anti-Semitism", b) Typoskript, 38 Blatt, c) Typoskript, 38 Blatt, d) Typoskript mit eigenhändigen und handschriftlichen Korrekturen, 46 Blatt;

Na 1 Nachlass Max Horkheimer, 663 - "Research-Project on Anti-Semitism" (p. IX 92.1e-IX 92.7)

International Institute of Social Research: Research-Project on Anti-Semitism" (1939-42) (veröffentlicht in Studies in Philosophy and Social Science Bd. IX, 1941, S. 124-143):; 1. e) Typoskript, 46 Blatt, f) Teilstück, Typoskript, 1 Blatt, g) deutsche Fassung, Typoskript, 43 Blatt; 2. Entwurf, deutsch, Typoskript mit eigenhändigen Korrekturen, 6 Blatt; 3. Über das Forschungsprojekt zum Antisemitismus, Typoskript, deutsch, 1 Seite fehlt, 38 Blatt; 4. Zitate aus Werken Friedrich Nietzsches über Jude, Antisemitismus, Rasse, Heinrich Heine, Typoskript, 18 Blatt; 5. Stichwortverzeichnis zu 4., handschriftliche Notizen, 10 Blatt; 6. Über Nietzsche, eigenhändige und handschriftliche Notizen zu 4., 3 Blatt; 7. "Supplementary Statement Dec. 1942", enthält unter anderem Abschriften bzw. Kopien von Briefen der Sponsoren des Projekts und ein Memorandum über die Tätigkeiten des Instituts 1939-41, a) als Typoskript vervielfältigt, 51 Blatt und 1 Sonderdruck: "International Institute of Social Research: A Report on Its History, Aims and Activities 1933-38", b) Typoskript und Photokopien, 28 Blatt und 2 Sonderdrucke: wie bei 7.a), außerdem "Research Project on Antisemitism", Studies in Philosophy and Social Science IX, 1941;

Na 1 Nachlass Max Horkheimer, 664 - "Research-Project on Anti-Semitism" (p. IX 92.8-IX 100)

International Institute of Social Research: Research-Project on Anti-Semitism" (1939-42) (veröffentlicht in Studies in Philosophy and Social Science Bd. IX, 1941, S. 124-143): 8. American Jewish Committee, Library: 1 Brief mit Unterschrift an Institute of Social Research, New York, 01.05.1941, 1 Brief mit Unterschrift von Institute of Social Research, New York, 3.5.1941, 2 Blatt; "Re: Anti-Semitism Project of the Institute of Social Research" (1941), Typoskript, 2 Blatt; "Remarks to the new form of the Project on Anti-Semitism" (27.10.1942), Typoskript, 10 Blatt; "Memorandum on a Research-Project on Anti-Semitism" (30.10.1942), a) Typoskript, 14 Blatt, b) Typoskript mit handschriftlichen Bemerkungen, 14 Blatt; Robert S. Lynd: Kommentar zu einer Beschreibung des Antisemitismus-Projekts vom 06.12.1942, Typoskript, englisch, mit handschriftlichen Korrekturen, 3 Blatt; "Outline of a Research Project on Anti-Semitism, prepared for the American Jewish Committee" (15.12.1942), a) Typoskript, 17 Blatt, b) Typoskript, 18 Blatt, c) Teilstück, Typoskript mit handschriftlichen Bemerkungen, 10 Blatt; "Memorandum on the Project on Antisemitism" (30.12.1942), a) Typoskript, 17 Blatt, b) Typoskript mit handschriftlichen Ergänzungen, 16 Blatt; "Some Methodological Errors in the Study of Antisemitism" (Januar 1943), Typoskript, 6 Blatt; "Intermediate Joint Meeting of the Institute of Social Research and the American Jewish Committee", Sitzungsprotokolle 01.03. - 27.07. 1943, Typoskripte mit handschriftlichen Korrekturen, 100 Blatt;

Information Management and Mediation in a Digital Reference Service Focused in Social Sciences

This paper investigates the current relationship between information management and information mediation along with the digital reference service through a case study which took place in an academic library. The concept of information mediation is herein analyzed, since a conceptual examination provides elements that will help people to comprehend and evaluate the concerned service. The information professional plays a very important role in the mediation aforementioned, which may be directly or indirectly; consciously or unconsciously; by himself/herself or plurally; individually or inserted into a group ? in all such manners that mediator facilitates the acquisition of information, fully or partially satisfying a user?s need of all sorts of knowledge. Meanwhile, we here approach information management from a scope that points out a description over performed activities concerned to policies and procedures put into effect until the service evaluation by proposing a criterion for such point. Finally, we outline a few actions to be implemented in long-term perspective, which goal is to continually ameliorate such assistance, taking in account the human factor

Family diversity in social exclusion situations. Results and reflections on research, teaching and knowledge transfer activities

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the configurations of the families that live in contexts of social exclusion; provide conceptualizations of their operation mode; highlight the formative effects that neighborhood interdisciplinary practices with such families produce in the just graduated psychologists, included on the Extension Program. We wish to contribute to produce systematic knowledge that can account for such family configurations as potential receiver of integration policies. We are also interested on transferring the approach to diversity in the training of young professionals, in order not to be regarded as a deviation from ideal models, but as an expression of different strategies built by members of a community, to resolve children breeding and to bear their existences. This work is the result about reflections on productions inside a research fellowship: The complexities that takes the breeding in families who lives in a social exclusion situation; researches about breeding, carried out from signature Developmental Psychology II, and from de interdisciplinary work with psychologically assisted families in twelve suburbs of the city of La Plata (University Extension Program "Free Legal Offices" (Convention between Law and Social Sciences and Psychology Faculties, U.N.L.P.). From a qualitative methodology and an interdisciplinary participation, the results have arrive at the characterization and proposed conceptualizations of the included families and at the same time determine the benefits that brings with the work that articulates research and extension activities for the training of advanced students and young graduates.

Information Management and Mediation in a Digital Reference Service Focused in Social Sciences

This paper investigates the current relationship between information management and information mediation along with the digital reference service through a case study which took place in an academic library. The concept of information mediation is herein analyzed, since a conceptual examination provides elements that will help people to comprehend and evaluate the concerned service. The information professional plays a very important role in the mediation aforementioned, which may be directly or indirectly; consciously or unconsciously; by himself/herself or plurally; individually or inserted into a group ? in all such manners that mediator facilitates the acquisition of information, fully or partially satisfying a user?s need of all sorts of knowledge. Meanwhile, we here approach information management from a scope that points out a description over performed activities concerned to policies and procedures put into effect until the service evaluation by proposing a criterion for such point. Finally, we outline a few actions to be implemented in long-term perspective, which goal is to continually ameliorate such assistance, taking in account the human factor

Family diversity in social exclusion situations. Results and reflections on research, teaching and knowledge transfer activities

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the configurations of the families that live in contexts of social exclusion; provide conceptualizations of their operation mode; highlight the formative effects that neighborhood interdisciplinary practices with such families produce in the just graduated psychologists, included on the Extension Program. We wish to contribute to produce systematic knowledge that can account for such family configurations as potential receiver of integration policies. We are also interested on transferring the approach to diversity in the training of young professionals, in order not to be regarded as a deviation from ideal models, but as an expression of different strategies built by members of a community, to resolve children breeding and to bear their existences. This work is the result about reflections on productions inside a research fellowship: The complexities that takes the breeding in families who lives in a social exclusion situation; researches about breeding, carried out from signature Developmental Psychology II, and from de interdisciplinary work with psychologically assisted families in twelve suburbs of the city of La Plata (University Extension Program "Free Legal Offices" (Convention between Law and Social Sciences and Psychology Faculties, U.N.L.P.). From a qualitative methodology and an interdisciplinary participation, the results have arrive at the characterization and proposed conceptualizations of the included families and at the same time determine the benefits that brings with the work that articulates research and extension activities for the training of advanced students and young graduates.

Information Management and Mediation in a Digital Reference Service Focused in Social Sciences

This paper investigates the current relationship between information management and information mediation along with the digital reference service through a case study which took place in an academic library. The concept of information mediation is herein analyzed, since a conceptual examination provides elements that will help people to comprehend and evaluate the concerned service. The information professional plays a very important role in the mediation aforementioned, which may be directly or indirectly; consciously or unconsciously; by himself/herself or plurally; individually or inserted into a group ? in all such manners that mediator facilitates the acquisition of information, fully or partially satisfying a user?s need of all sorts of knowledge. Meanwhile, we here approach information management from a scope that points out a description over performed activities concerned to policies and procedures put into effect until the service evaluation by proposing a criterion for such point. Finally, we outline a few actions to be implemented in long-term perspective, which goal is to continually ameliorate such assistance, taking in account the human factor

Family diversity in social exclusion situations. Results and reflections on research, teaching and knowledge transfer activities

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the configurations of the families that live in contexts of social exclusion; provide conceptualizations of their operation mode; highlight the formative effects that neighborhood interdisciplinary practices with such families produce in the just graduated psychologists, included on the Extension Program. We wish to contribute to produce systematic knowledge that can account for such family configurations as potential receiver of integration policies. We are also interested on transferring the approach to diversity in the training of young professionals, in order not to be regarded as a deviation from ideal models, but as an expression of different strategies built by members of a community, to resolve children breeding and to bear their existences. This work is the result about reflections on productions inside a research fellowship: The complexities that takes the breeding in families who lives in a social exclusion situation; researches about breeding, carried out from signature Developmental Psychology II, and from de interdisciplinary work with psychologically assisted families in twelve suburbs of the city of La Plata (University Extension Program "Free Legal Offices" (Convention between Law and Social Sciences and Psychology Faculties, U.N.L.P.). From a qualitative methodology and an interdisciplinary participation, the results have arrive at the characterization and proposed conceptualizations of the included families and at the same time determine the benefits that brings with the work that articulates research and extension activities for the training of advanced students and young graduates.

Relationship among research collaboration, number of documents and number of citations. A case study in Spanish computer science production in 2000-2009.

This paper analyzes the relationship among research collaboration, number of documents and number of citations of computer science research activity. It analyzes the number of documents and citations and how they vary by number of authors. They are also analyzed (according to author set cardinality) under different circumstances, that is, when documents are written in different types of collaboration, when documents are published in different document types, when documents are published in different computer science subdisciplines, and, finally, when documents are published by journals with different impact factor quartiles. To investigate the above relationships, this paper analyzes the publications listed in the Web of Science and produced by active Spanish university professors between 2000 and 2009, working in the computer science field. Analyzing all documents, we show that the highest percentage of documents are published by three authors, whereas single-authored documents account for the lowest percentage. By number of citations, there is no positive association between the author cardinality and citation impact. Statistical tests show that documents written by two authors receive more citations per document and year than documents published by more authors. In contrast, results do not show statistically significant differences between documents published by two authors and one author. The research findings suggest that international collaboration results on average in publications with higher citation rates than national and institutional collaborations. We also find differences regarding citation rates between journals and conferences, across different computer science subdisciplines and journal quartiles as expected. Finally, our impression is that the collaborative level (number of authors per document) will increase in the coming years, and documents published by three or four authors will be the trend in computer science literature.

Rocks are human beings: researching the humanizing metaphor in earth science scientific texts

This paper describes a corpus-based analysis of the humanizing metaphor and supports that constitutive metaphor in science and technology may be highly metaphorical and active. The study, grounded in Lakoff’s Theory of Metaphor and in Langacker’s relational networks, consists of two phases: firstly, Earth Science metaphorical terms were extracted from databases and dictionaries and, then, contextualized by means of the “Wordsmith” tool in a digitalized corpus created to establish their productivity. Secondly, the terms were classified to disclose the main conceptual metaphors underlying them; then, the mappings and the relational networks of the metaphor were described. Results confirm the systematicity and productivity of the metaphor in this field, show evidence that metaphoricity of scientific terms is gradable, and support that Earth Science metaphors are not only created in terms of their concrete salient properties and attributes, but also on abstract human anthropocentric projections.

REFLEXOS INDIVIDUAIS DO USO PESSOAL E EXCESSIVO DE COMUNICADORES INSTANTÂNEOS NO AMBIENTE DE TRABALHO

A Internet está inserida no cotidiano do indivíduo, e torna-se cada vez mais acessível por meio de diferentes tipos de dispositivos. Com isto, diversos estudos foram realizados com o intuito de avaliar os reflexos do seu uso excessivo na vida pessoal, acadêmica e profissional. Esta dissertação buscou identificar se a perda de concentração e o isolamento social são alguns dos reflexos individuais que o uso pessoal e excessivo de aplicativos de comunicação instantânea podem resultar no ambiente de trabalho. Entre as variáveis selecionadas para avaliar os aspectos do uso excessivo de comunicadores instantâneos tem-se a distração digital, o controle reduzido de impulso, o conforto social e a solidão. Através de uma abordagem de investigação quantitativa, utilizaram-se escalas aplicadas a uma amostra de 283 pessoas. Os dados foram analisados por meio de técnicas estatísticas multivariadas como a Análise Fatorial Exploratória e para auferir a relação entre as variáveis, a Regressão Linear Múltipla. Os resultados deste estudo confirmam que o uso excessivo de comunicadores instantâneos está positivamente relacionado com a perda de concentração, e a variável distração digital exerce uma influência maior do que o controle reduzido de impulso. De acordo com os resultados, não se podem afirmar que a solidão e o conforto social exercem relações com aumento do isolamento social, devido à ausência do relacionamento entre os construtos.