Institut Barcelona Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)
http://hdl.handle.net/10230/37232
2024-03-19T02:51:33ZAgenda dynamics in Spain
http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59362
Agenda dynamics in Spain
Chaqués Bonafont, Laura; Palau, Anna M.; Muñoz Màrquez, Luz
The main goal of the Policy Agendas Project in Spain is to promote a comprehensive theoretical and empirical understanding of agenda dynamics across time, issues, and levels of governance. The project establishes a link between policy dynamics research and other areas of concern within political science, mainly media studies, political representation, and the quality of democracy in multilevel systems of governance. It also provides a new tool for the development of quantitative measurements of policy dynamics. Over the last few years comprehensive and far-reaching datasets about Spanish political and media agendas (following the methodology of the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP)) have been created, which are free and accessible to download from the webpage: www.q-dem.com.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZA practical guide to (successfully) collect and process images through online surveys
http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59270
A practical guide to (successfully) collect and process images through online surveys
Iglesias, Patricia A.; Ochoa, Carlos; Revilla, Melanie
Asking online survey respondents to share images is a practice that has gained notoriety recently. Although this collecting strategy may offer many advantages, it requires researchers to know how to operationalize, collect, process, and analyze this type of data, which is not yet an extended expertise among survey practitioners. This paper aims to guide researchers inexperienced in image analysis by presenting the main steps involved in the process of using images as a new data source: 1) operationalization, 2) definition of the labels, 3) choice of the most suitable classification method(s), 4) collection, 5) enhancement, and 6) classification of the images, 7) verification of the classification outcomes, and 8) data analysis. Following this eight-step process can help practitioners assess whether image collection is appropriate for their research problem and, if so, plan their image-based research, by providing them with the key considerations and decisions to address throughout their implementation.
2024-01-01T00:00:00Z‘I know you like the back of my hand’: biometric practices of humanitarian organisations in international aid
http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59245
‘I know you like the back of my hand’: biometric practices of humanitarian organisations in international aid
Açikyildiz, Çaglar
Humanitarian organisations are increasingly utilising biometric data. However, we know little about the extent and scope of this practice, as its benefits and risks have attracted all the attention so far. This paper explores the biometric practices of the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations World Food Programme, the International Committee of the Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières, and World Vision International. The study analysed relevant documents published over the past two decades and 17 semi-structured interviews with humanitarian workers conducted between June 2021 and June 2022. The findings reveal that humanitarian organisations use diverse types and functions of biometric data for differ-ent services, collaborate with many actors, and employ various data protection measures. Ultimately, challenging the straightforward generalisations about the use of such data, the paper argues that variational applications of biometrics in the humanitarian context require case-by-case analysis, as each instance will likely produce a different outcome.
Data de publicació electrònica: 27 de setembre del 2023
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZThe dictator's legionnaires: foreign recruitment, coups, and uprisings
http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59241
The dictator's legionnaires: foreign recruitment, coups, and uprisings
Mehrl, Marius; Escribà-Folch, Abel
Several countries recruit foreign nationals into their armed forces. This is despite the norm of citizen armies and the strong idea that individuals join the military to defend their home country while military service socializes them into good citizens. We argue that foreign recruits can have very specific benefits for some authoritarian governments. Because they lack strong links to society, their loyalties lie with whoever recruited and pays them, not the nation, country, or its citizens. As such, we argue, first, that their recruitment is especially attractive for personalistic rulers. Second, we propose that foreigners’ presence in the armed forces stymies these forces’ ability to carry out coup attempts and deters the occurrence of mass uprisings by signalling the security forces’ willingness to respond with violent repression. Empirical tests for the period 1946–2010 support these arguments. This research expands our understanding of legionnaire recruitment, civil–military relations, and comparative authoritarianism.
Data de publicació electrònica: 14-11-2023; Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.
2023-01-01T00:00:00Z