scholarly journals Shut-Off: The Digital Television Transition in the United States and Canada

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Taylor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Digital Television ◽  
Television Broadcasting ◽  
Primary Documents ◽  
Analyse Comparative ◽  
A Site ◽  
The U.S

Abstract: This article offers a comparative analysis exploring early developments in digital television broadcasting in the United States and Canada. The U.S. transition is now complete (2009) but the Canadian analogue shut-off remains a site of controversy. Through the examination of primary documents-official reports, policy announcements, statistics, and speeches from key political and industrial figures-this article challenges traditional conceptions of broadcasting governance in the two countries.Résumé : Cet article présente une analyse comparative explorant les premiers développements de la télévision numérique aux États-Unis et au Canada. La transition est désormais terminée aux États-Unis (2009) mais l'arrêt de la télévision analogique au Canada fait encore l'objet de controverses. Par le biais de l'examen de documents primaires-rapports officiels, annonces politiques, statistiques et discours de figures de l'industrie et de politiciens clés-cet article remet en question les conceptions traditionnelles de gouvernance dans ces deux pays.

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of the Determinants of Executive Compensation between Canadian and U.S. Firms

2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel L. Magnan ◽  
Sylvie St-Onge ◽  
Linda Thorne
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Executive Compensation ◽  
Firm Size ◽  
Ownership Structure ◽  
The United States ◽  
Firm Ownership ◽  
Size Firm ◽  
The U.S

This study attempts to identify determinants of executive compensation in Canada while comparing how they differ between Canada and the United States. Results suggest that firm size, firm performance, and firm ownership structure all determine executive compensation in Canada. However, several differences between the determinants of executive compensation in Canada and the U.S. are identified.

scholarly journals The Millimeter Array

1994 ◽  
Vol 140 ◽  
pp. 398-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Brown
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Hubble Space Telescope ◽  
The United States ◽  
Space Telescope ◽  
National Science ◽  
A Site ◽  
The U.S

AbstractThe Millimeter Array, under development in the United States, is a fast and flexible telescope capable of imaging the thermal sky at a resolution equal to that specified in the design goals of the Hubble Space Telescope. The MMA is a project of the U.S. National Science Foundation, and it has been highlighted as one of the four major U.S. initiatives in astronomy for the decade of the 1990s. Construction will begin toward the end of the decade at a site soon to be chosen.

The Samsung–Apple patent war: Socio-cultural comparative study of news frames in a business conflict issue

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-65
Author(s):  
Wan-Soo Lee ◽  
Min-Kyu Lee ◽  
Seok Kang ◽  
Jae-Woong Yoo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Wall Street Journal ◽  
The United States ◽  
The South ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
News Frames ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The U.S

This study explored a comparative analysis of how the South Korean and United States media framed the Samsung–Apple patent lawsuit. The South Korean and U.S. media have a tendency to report Samsung–Apple patent disputes in a completely different angle. While framing in favor of Samsung was frequent in South Korea, neutral frames were dominant in the United States. The South Korean newspapers showed a stronger nationalism in favor of Samsung, whereas the U.S. newspapers portrayed the business conflict in the market logic. The South Korean and U.S. newspapers also showed differences in framing according to the ideological characteristics of the newspaper. In South Korea, the main conservative newspaper ( Chosun Ilbo) framed the issue in favor of Samsung and the largest liberal newspaper ( Hankyoreh) revealed a tendency to frame it in favor of Apple. However, in the United States, only the main business newspaper ( Wall Street Journal) favored Apple. This study contributes to news framing research in that socio-cultural divergences, framing pool (e.g., generic frames vs. issue-specific frames), and journalistic contexts considered systematically.

scholarly journals How Large Is the “Public Domain”? A Comparative Analysis of Ringer’s 1961 Copyright Renewal Study and HathiTrust CRMS Data

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. Wilkin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Determination Process ◽  
Review Management ◽  
The U.S

The 1961 Copyright Office study on renewals, authored by Barbara Ringer, has cast an outsized influence on discussions of the U.S. 1923–1963 public domain. As more concrete data emerge from initiatives such as the large-scale determination process in the Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) project, questions are raised about the reliability or meaning of the Ringer data. A closer examination of both the Ringer study and CRMS data demonstrates fundamental misunderstandings and misrepresentations of the Ringer data, as well as possible methodological issues. Estimates of the size of the corpus of public domain books published in the United States from 1923 through 1963 have been inflated by problematic assumptions, and we should be able to correct mistaken conclusions with reasonable effort.

Religious Beliefs and Perceptions of Repression in the U.S. and Swedish Plowshares Movements

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Erickson Nepstad
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Plowshares Movement ◽  
The U.S

Sharon Erickson Nepstad’s chapter hones our understanding of how religion can shape activists’ interpretations of repression. Through a comparative analysis of the Plowshares movements in the United States and Sweden, this chapter argues that long prison sentences did not harm the U.S. Plowshares movement in part because activists’ Catholic beliefs and identity led them to view repression in religious terms that deepened their commitment, motivation, and unity. The chapter contrasts the U.S. case to the experience of the secular Swedish Plowshares activists, who interpreted their repression in ways that made them susceptible to internal disputes, waning commitment, and co-optation.

Populism’s Threat to Democracy: Comparative Lessons for the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-406
Author(s):  
Kurt Weyland
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
Federal System ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
The U.S

How grave is the threat that populist leaders pose to democracy? To elucidate the prospects of the United States under president Donald Trump, I conduct a wide-ranging comparative analysis of populism’s regime impact in Europe and Latin America. The investigation finds that the risks have been overestimated. Populist leaders manage to suffocate democracy only when two crucial conditions coincide. First, institutional weakness, which comes in various types, creates vulnerabilities to populist power grabs. Second, even in weaker institutional settings populist leaders can only succeed with their illiberal machinations if acute yet resolvable crises or extraordinary bonanzas give them overwhelming support which enables them to override and dismantle institutional constraints to power concentration. Because none of these conditions prevail in the United States, an undemocratic involution is very unlikely. First, the federal system of checks and balances, rooted in an unusually rigid constitution, remains firm and stable. Second, President Trump encountered neither acute crises nor a huge windfall; consequently, his mass support has remained limited. Facing strong resistance from an energized opposition party and a vibrant civil society, the U.S. populist cannot destroy democracy. Instead, Trump’s transgressions of norms of civility have sparked an intense counter-mobilization that may inadvertently revitalize U.S. democracy.

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