Editorial Board and Staff

Welcome to the first issue of the Journal of Amateur Sport (JAS)! First, I must thank everyone who played an integral role in the development of JAS. Drs. Mark Vermillion, Brian Gordon, Kyle Bunds, and Marion Hambrick were invaluable in their guidance as original members of the editorial and development team. The first editorial board has also played a large part in the excellent quality of the first issue that follows. We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to receiving your submissions in the future!

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Editorial

The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist ◽

10.1017/s1754470x16000155 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

Author(s):

Pamela Myles

Keyword(s):

Treatment Fidelity ◽

Vital Role ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Special Edition ◽

Special Issue

Welcome to this Special Issue of tCBT. Our focus in this special edition of the journal is on supervision. Few would argue the vital role of supervision during CBT training and beyond to ensure treatment fidelity to evidence-based protocols. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Professors Derek Milne and Robert Reiser for kindly acting as guest editors. In addition, we are grateful for their fine contributions to the supervision literature in this particular edition of the journal. Thanks too to Professor Cory Newman from the tCBT editorial board for contributing to the overarching paper provided by Professors Milne and Reiser. Thanks also to all the authors for their fine contributions and to our reviewers who gave so generously of their time to comment on the submitted manuscripts. Our intention is to publish one Special Issue a year, next year we look forward to a special edition with a focus on ‘complexity’ with guest editors Dr Claire Lomax and Dr Stephen Barton from Newcastle University.

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Methodological Issues in Macro Comparative Research: An Introduction

Journal of World-Systems Research ◽

10.5195/jwsr.2009.334 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 1-2 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jeffrey Kentor

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Comparative Research ◽

World System ◽

The Other ◽

Special Issue ◽

Methodological Issues ◽

The World

This special issue of JWSR is the offspring of an ASA Political Economy of the World System session that I organized in 2007. My thanks to Andrew Jorgenson, co-editor of JWSR, who moderated the session and proposed that I put together a special issue on this topic. In turn, I asked Timothy Moran to join me as co-editor of this issue. Tim is one of the foremost quantitative macro-comparative sociologists in the country, and was the discussant on the PEWS panel. Tim provides a summary and discussion of the contributions in the conclusion. As it turns out, only two of the panel presentations are included in this issue. The other two were submitted in response to a general call for papers. All four manuscripts were peer reviewed.

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Microfinance RCTs in Development

Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198865360.003.0009 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 186-226

Author(s):

Florent Bédécarrats ◽

Isabelle Guérin ◽

François Roubaud

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

External Validity ◽

Data Entry ◽

Special Issue ◽

Collection Data ◽

The Many ◽

Dissemination Of Results ◽

Analytical Tools ◽

Internal And External Validity ◽

Political Success

Microcredit has long stood as a flagship topic for RCTs in development, starting with the publication of a special issue in a leading economics journal on six RCTs conducted in different world regions. This special issue was hailed as the first rigorous and conceivably definitive study on the impacts of microcredit. However, a detailed exploration of the implementation of these six RCTs reveals many limitations with respect to internal and external validity, ethics, and interpretation. This chapter uses analytical tools from statistics, political economy, and development anthropology to discuss the extent to which the entire RCT chain strays from the ideal RCT principles (from sampling, data collection, data entry and recoding, estimates and interpretation to publication and dissemination of results). It also raises questions about the disparity between the academic and political success of this special issue and the many inconsistencies of method.

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