scholarly journals “Maleducados/Ill-mannered” during the #A28 political campaign on Twitter

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Bou-Franch
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Campaign ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Digital Discourse ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

Abstract This paper approaches the study of conflict through an examination of Spanish metapragmatic labels and comments of impoliteness on Twitter. The aim is twofold. It first aims to confirm the attributed importance of the label maleducado /ill-mannered in the specific context of Twitter and of digital discourse more generally, on quantitative and comparative grounds; then, it investigates this label, and the metapragmatic comments where it occurred, in a contextualized corpus of tweets compiled during the political campaign of Spain’s General Elections of April 28, 2019. The study draws from five ad hoc corpora specifically compiled from Twitter, and a general corpus of Spanish digital discourse provided by Sketch Engine. The analysis adopts a corpus-based metapragmatic approach, which combines quantitative and qualitative methods. Findings revealed that maleducado was the most frequent metapragmatic label under scrutiny in the Twitter corpora and motivated the subsequent study of lay conceptualizations of this term.

scholarly journals Comportamiento político en la Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla en las elecciones generales de 2011 y 2015

Aldaba ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Luz Helena Idrobro Bedoya
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
The City ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

En esta investigación se pretende determinar cuáles son los aspectos socio-culturales más relevantes de los ciudadanos de Melilla que inciden en su comportamiento político en las elecciones generales. Por tanto, se analizará cómo los ciudadanos de Melilla cambian sus intereses políticos dependiendo de las elecciones y las fuerzas políticas que confluyan en ellas. De esta forma, la investigación se centra en las dos últimas elecciones Generales, proponiendo el estudio de la problemática melillense desde ópticas politológicas y sociológicas a través de la utilización de métodos cuantitativos y cualitativos, centrando el interés en las comunidades más representativas de la ciudad (católicos y musulmanes). Recogiendo con ello, la realidad y caracterización de una población multicultural que coexiste.This research aims to determine which are the most relevant sociocultural aspects of the citizens of Melilla affecting their political behavior in the general elections. Therefore, we will analyze how the citizens of Melilla change their political interests depending on the elections and the political forces that join them. In this way, the research focuses on the two last General elections, proposing the study of the Melilla issue from optical of political science and sociology using quantitative and qualitative methods, focusing the interest in the most representative of the city (Catholics and Muslim) communities. Collecting this reality and characterization of a multicultural population coexisting.

Factors responsible behind political brand preference: an empirical study on Indian voters

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saikat Banerjee ◽  
Bibek Ray Chaudhuri
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Party ◽  
The Political ◽  
Brand Trust ◽  
Political Campaign ◽  
Cumulative Impact ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Path Coefficients ◽  
Party Preference ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – Political parties are continuously interested to gain knowledge about the factors that influence the voter to select political candidate of his/her choice. The purpose of this paper is to examine cumulative impact of sources of associations on voters’ preference of the political party and to investigate the type of causal relationship that exists among those sources. Design/methodology/approach – The authors have proposed five key sources of associations of the overall political party, namely, campaign effectiveness, image of its leaders, intensity of anti-incumbency effect, meaning and trust attached with the party. Here the authors have considered four important political parties relevant to the voters of West Bengal. Those are Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party, Communist Party of India (Marxist) and All India Trinamool Congress. The authors have used SEM method for estimating the model as the same is widely used for estimating a system of equations with latent variables. Findings – Out of the eight path coefficients six are found to be statistically significant. Political campaign impacts brand trust positively and brand trust in turn impacts party preference positively. Again political campaign’s direct impact on political party preference is found to be positive. However, the impact of political campaign on party preference also runs through brand meaning. Both the path coefficients are significantly negative showing that more the voters develop understanding about political parties through different independent sources lesser are the impact of political campaigns as they highlight positive aspects of the party and the candidate only, ignoring facts. Interestingly leadership is impacting party preference negatively. Thus individual leadership traits have negatively impacted party preference in the sample. Originality/value – In the paper, the authors have identified factors impacting political brand choice in an emerging country like India. This research explores the factors that need to be considered by the political parties to influence preference of voters for political brand. As far as the authors’ knowledge goes no such studies have been carried out in the Indian context and certainly not in the context of a regime change after three decades. Additionally, the theoretical model proposed is firmly grounded in theory and its estimation is based on well-developed scales. The approach is thus unique in this area of enquiry. Finally, application of SEM in political branding context is a significant contribution of this work.

Uganda president co-opts to dilute Mbabazi threat

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
The Political ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
Regional Stability ◽  
Content Type ◽  
General Elections

Subject Election outlook in Uganda. Significance President Yoweri Museveni is confirmed as the National Resistance Movement's (NRM) official presidential candidate for February 2016 general elections. His most threatening challenger is former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, whose defection is the most significant in a decade. However, in the wake of the NRM party primaries and delegates conference, Museveni has shown his ability to consolidate support among the political elite. Impacts Uganda's elections will distract focus from its official mediation role in Burundi's deteriorating security crisis. However, Museveni may also guard Uganda's position as the regional mediator for fear of losing influence. Burundi is at high risk of civil conflict, with repercussions for regional stability ahead of Uganda's elections.

Critical factors affecting the performance of large construction projects in developing countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 531-556
Author(s):  
Djoen San Santoso ◽  
Polwatta Gallage Madusha Piumal Gallage
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

Purpose This paper aims to analyse the factors affecting the performance of large construction projects in Sri Lanka. The causes, impacts and mitigations in association with the critical factors are explored and discussed. Design/methodology/approach The research focuses on the evaluation and perspectives of clients and contractors of large projects in Sri Lanka. Combined quantitative and qualitative methods were applied in this research. Initially, a questionnaire survey was conducted with clients and contractors involved in large projects to evaluate the factors affecting the performance of projects and to identify the ten most critical factors. Interviews with the clients and contractors of three large projects were conducted to examine the causes and impacts of the critical factors and the approaches used to mitigate them. Findings Significant differences in the factors were observed for more than 40 per cent of the total factors under study, the contractors assigning more weight to most of the factors than the clients. The study identified nine internal factors and one external factor as the critical factors. Of these, seven were related to the contractors, which suggested that the contractors have greater roles in defining performance. Lack of management and technical skills of the parties involved, human capacity, lack of understanding and knowledge of the local context, changes in government policies and political interference were identified as significant causes of the critical factors. Originality/value The study analysed the factors affecting the performance of large projects in Sri Lanka, which, at the time of research, had just ended a 26-year-long civil war and was pushing the construction of large projects to be competitive. The challenges faced in this effort were explored as lessons learnt that might improve the efficiency and effectiveness of infrastructure development in Sri Lanka. The combined quantitative and qualitative methods applied in this study are expected to provide new insights in the project performance research, especially the interviews of the critical factors to gain an understanding on how the factors occurred and manifested themselves in real projects. The findings are, however, expected to be applicable to other developing countries that are currently aggressively developing their large infrastructure.

Corpus-Based Study on Explicitation of Personal Pronouns in Chinese-English Translation

2013 ◽  
Vol 411-414 ◽  
pp. 283-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Ping Tong
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
English Translation ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Political ◽  
Deng Xiaoping ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

This paper explores the explicitation strategy (one of the translation universals) in the political text .We adopt the quantitative and qualitative methods in the present study with the help of the self-compiled corpus to detect if the explicitation strategies of personal pronouns is prominent in the Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, Volume III (1982-1992). It is found that the percentage of the personal pronouns were added or explicated purposely all together come to all most 31% compared with the total number of 5024 aligned sentences in the corpus.

Tourism SMEs and organizational learning in a competitive environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 184-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hossein Imani Khoshkhoo ◽  
Zahra Nadalipour
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

Purpose This paper aims to study the impact of increasing number of competitors on the organisational learning (OL) in tourism small and medium-sized enterprises. The focus of this study is the tourism and travel agencies (TTAs) of the City of Ahvaz where the OL was studied within TTAs insofar as increasing the number of competitors is concerned. The underlying question in this paper is whether or not the increasing number of competitors affects OL in TTAs of the City of Ahvaz. Design/methodology/approach Using a longitudinal survey, OL was studied at individual, group and organisational levels. The research is based upon quantitative and qualitative methods. Owing to the small number of samples, in addition to questionnaire and quantitative analysis, authors made use of in-depth interviews. The first research was conducted in 2012, while the second one was done in 2014. Findings It was found that in 2012, with its limited number of competitors in the market, learning in these organisations was desirable at individual level and not at group or organisational levels. On the other hand, both the quantitative and qualitative methods in 2014, with the increased number of TTAs, suggested that the quality of learning were desirable in all organisational levels in that year. Research limitations/implications Care should be taken in generalising the results of the research to other TTAs because the size of the sample in this study was small. Moreover, structure and performance of TTAs may be different among various regions. In addition to the said limitation, it must be noted that some variables such as experience, education and gender were not consider in analysing the results of the study. Furthermore, OL in the TTAs might be affected by other variables that were not considered in this study. Originality/value Originality of the study is to link “OL” to the “competition”. There is not any study with special focus on OL with approaching to competition, neither in travel and tourism literature nor in OL literature, and this study can be a starting point to raise further and future research and debates.

Ukraine battles virus, political and default risks

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
The Political ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The People ◽  
Default Risks

Significance As well as causing economic and business disruption, the crisis has virtually put the political process on hold. Parliament is holding occasional sessions to pass urgent anti-crisis measures, but other controversial legislation is showing up divisions in President Volodymyr Zelensky's camp. Impacts The economic consequences of COVID-19 will test the Zelensky administration's ability to manage rifts in its own support base. The crisis will keep peace talks on hold for a few months, delaying rather than derailing a planned Ukrainian-Russian-German-French summit. Passing land and banking laws needs votes from pro-European opposition factions, which will help Servant of the People on an ad hoc basis.

Household food insecurity and hunger in Babile district, Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (10) ◽  
pp. 1225-1242
Author(s):  
Chanyalew Seyoum Aweke ◽  
Edward Lahiff ◽  
Muluken Gezahegn Wordofa ◽  
Jemal Y. Hassen
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Food Access ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Household Food Insecurity ◽  
Eastern Ethiopia ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Female Headed Households ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine household food gap and food insecurity in Eastern Ethiopia. Differences in food gap and food insecurity were also examined in terms of gender of the household head and location.Design/methodology/approachA combination of quantitative and qualitative methods such as household survey, key informant interview and focused group discussion were utilized for this study. Households were drawn randomly from the study area.FindingsIn terms of food availability, more than half of the households experienced a food gap during the year, especially during the months of July and August. In terms of gender, female-headed households had more months of food shortage compared to their male counterparts. This disparity was also reflected in poorer food access among female-headed households as shown by the higher HFIAS. Differences in food insecurity were obtained in terms of gender of the household head and location. Livestock ownership, cereal crop production, extension contact and household size significantly influenced household food access.Research limitations/implicationsFindings are valid only for low-land agroecologiesOriginality/valueThis study contributes to the existing literature by examining household food gap and food insecurity using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. It adds value in examining disparities between male-headed and female-headed households. Literature related to seasonal household food insecurity is limited in Ethiopia. This study contributes in this regard by examining seasonal food insecurity between post-harvest and pre-harvest seasons.

The changing political orientation of Air Tiris, Kampar, Riau community towards Islamic political parties in general elections (a case study: general elections in Indonesia)

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tri Joko Waluyo
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Content Type ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Islamic Parties ◽  
Islamic Political Parties

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the changing political orientation of Air Tiris, Kampar, Riau community towards Islamic political parties in general elections; to analyze the factors that influenced the political orientation of Air Tiris community in general elections; and to realize the political rights of the society including Air Tiris community. Design/methodology/approach The subject in this study is the political orientation of the Air Tiris community in the 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014 general elections with a period of research from 2009 to 2016. This qualitative research method consists of sources, data collection, informants, data collection techniques, data analysis and processing and writing systematics. Findings The results of the research indicate that there are three dominant factors affecting the change in the political orientation of the Air Tiris community towards Islamic political parties characterized by the deterioration of vote acquisition for Islamic political parties in Air Tiris village in 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014 general elections. The weakening of the link between religious identity and voting behaviour, as well as the weakening of political movement. The identification or loyalty of the santri community towards Islamic parties has faded. Originality/value The originality of this research lies in the analysis of the political orientation of Air Tiris, Kampar, Riau community, in general, elections towards Islamic political parties. Traditionally, this community has more political orientation on religious/Islamic political parties but such orientation experiences developments and changes that lead to non-Islamic parties. This research contains new information about the analysis of the political orientation of Air Tiris, Kampar, Riau community in the general election of Islamic political parties.

United we stand: quantitative and qualitative methods to assess cooperation

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (6/7) ◽  
pp. 508-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Gabriele Weston ◽  
Giuseppina Vullo
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Library Management ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods ◽  
Common Vision

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the quantitative and qualitative methods to assess the sustainability of cooperation models within research libraries networks in the humanities. Design/methodology/approach – Changing research environment and budget constraints currently are the main challenges of research libraries networks: to cope with this pressure libraries need to build collective capacity through a strong model of collaboration and partnership and foster closer interaction between actors both from the library and the external world. In order to build effective and efficient cooperation models research libraries networks will first need to share a common vision and a well-focused organisation. Nevertheless, a multi-level approach should help them to identify their core functional requirements, the specialised needs of their users and a flexible cooperation structure able to maintain the financial sustainability of the system. Findings – After illustrating the current challenges in the research libraries world, and how cooperation and collaboration issues have been connoting library management and activities, this work presents the methodology and the preliminary results of a research project which surveyed the URBS network, an international consortium of 12 libraries from academic and research institutions of several nations (Austria, Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the USA) based in Rome, Italy. Originality/value – This paper will be of interest and value to other research library networks or consortia with an interest in the development of new organisational models, and in the evaluation and assessment of their sustainability.

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