A Satisficing Search Model of Text Production

2018 ◽  
pp. 397-415
Author(s):  
Drew B. Margolin
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Search Theory ◽  
Semantic Search ◽  
Search Model ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Civic Discourse ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Search Processes ◽  
Key Concepts

The abundance of civic discourse now observable via digital archives has created an enormous opportunity for researching public opinion. Making use of these data requires understanding the theoretical processes by which they are produced. This chapter introduces satisficing semantic search as one theoretical process that accounts for the content of and form in which discourse is produced. The chapter defines satisficing search processes and explores their implications for the assessment of public opinion from digital archives. It focuses on two key concepts from satisficing search theory: availability, the extent to which discursive material can be found with ease, and aspiration, the extent to which individuals are motivated to find material that precisely represents their underlying views. After defining and describing means of measuring these concepts, the chapter argues that they can be used to detect the strength of both social and political movements.

Islamist political movements in Yemen

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-70
Author(s):  
Abdulmalik Mohammad Abdullah Eissa
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Extremist Group ◽  
Islamic Extremism

This article presents an overview of Yemeni society before proceeding to a detailed account of research undertaken by the author into the factors behind the rise of Islamic extremism in Yemen and its appeal, especially among the young and most deprived sectors of society. The author draws on and relates his findings to a number of theoretical works, including those of authorities such as Max Weber as well as more recent analysts, in a discussion of what drives extremist group formation and what attracts their adherents, in general terms and in Yemen in particular. The findings of a survey of public opinion in Yemen conducted by the author are recounted in some detail.

Anti-Semitism in Moscow: Results of an October 1992 Survey

Slavic Review ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Brym ◽  
Andrei Degtyarev
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Public Opinion Polls ◽  
Opinion Polls

Public opinion polls show that between 1988 and 1991 some three percent of adult Russians donated money to various political movements, four percent took part in strikes and just over six percent participated in mass rallies and demonstrations. Fewer than one percent of Russians j o i n ed new political parties, still nascent organizations that attract elites, not masses. At the same time, membership in the Communist Party dropped from ten percent to four percent of the adult population of Russia.

Opportunities Denied, Wages Diminished: Using Search Theory to Translate Audit-Pair Study Findings into Wage Differentials

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 921-958 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan A. Lanning
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Search Theory ◽  
Search Model ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Hiring Discrimination ◽  
White Workers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

Abstract This article proposes a framework with which to estimate the impact on labor market outcomes implied by audit-pair study findings. I present a search model with discrimination and calibrate the model with experimental data from audit studies of the U.S. labor market and the NLSY79 to estimate the wage and unemployment implications of documented hiring disparity. All simulated results are highly consistent with the hypothesis that hiring discrimination may be an important component of the observed labor market disparity between African American and white workers in the U.S. Additionally, while the simulations only generate a small proportion of the observed gaps in unemployment, it proves to be one of the few models capable of explaining simultaneous wage in unemployment gaps. The most robust finding of the article is that non-trivial wage gaps can result even from the seemingly small differences in hiring rates documented in these studies.

scholarly journals Dalits and Federalism - A Study of Public Opinion on Federalism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maheshraj Maharjan
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Proportional Representation ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Contentious Issue ◽  
State Restructuring ◽  
Commission Report ◽  
Special Rights

Dalit movement, along with Janajati and Madhesi movements, has been a major force in political and social transformation in Nepal since 1990. Federalism, one of the demands of such transformations, has become a contentious issue for Dalits. Dalit leaders had initially mostly been centered on ensuring proportional representation in central and local governments, along with special rights as a compensation for their historical oppression (Bhattachan 2008). However, after the Peoples’ Movement of 2006, with Janajatis and Madhesis demanding provinces along ethnic and regional lines, Dalit leaders and scholars began to discuss the relevance of federalism for Dalits as well as possibility of their own Dalit province. This issue climaxed with State Restructuring High Commission Report suggesting provision of a non-territorial province for Dalits.But is a Dalit province, or federalism, needed for Dalits? Is the issue of federalism and Dalit province an aspiration, or a concern, of common Dalits? Or is it just an interest of Dalit leaders and elites? This paper tries to analyse public opinion of Dalits, based on a survey of public opinion in two VDCs of Nepal, on the various issues related to federalism, including aspirations of Dalits in the proposed constitution and perceptions of Dalits on successive political movements and government provisions for Dalits since 1990.

scholarly journals The Sickle and the Piano. A Distant Reading of Work in the Nineteenth Century Romanian Novel

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-128
Author(s):  
Ștefan Baghiu ◽  
Cosmin Borza
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
Semantic Search ◽  
Physical Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Digital Museum ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The 19Th Century

This article conducts a semantic search of The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel: The 19th Century (MDRR), through which the authors attempt to identify the occurrences of several key concepts for class and labour imagery in the nineteenth-century Romanian novel, such as “muncă” [labour/work], “muncitor” [labourer/worker], “țăran” [peasant], “funcționar” [civil servant], alongside two main words that strikingly point out to a dissemblance of representation of work: “seceră” [sickle] and “pian” [piano]. The authors show that physical work is underrepresented in the Romanian novel between 1844 and 1900, and that novelists prefer to participate to the rise of the novel through representing the bourgeois intimate space.

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