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Finding reliable and valid positions for political actors is of key importance to political scientists. In this paper we compare estimates obtained using the automated Wordscores and Wordfish techniques with estimates from the widely-used Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP) as well as voter and expert placements. We estimate the positions of 254 manifestos across 33 elections in Germany and Denmark, two cases with very different textual data available. The paper contributes to the literature on automated content analysis by providing a comprehensive test of convergent validation, both in terms of number of cases analyzed and number of validation measures. In both cases, Wordscores approximately replicates the CMP, voter and expert assessments of party positions, whereas Wordfish replicates the positions in the German manifestos. The results demonstrate that automated methods can produce valid estimates of party positions, but also that the appropriateness of each method hinges on the quality of the textual data. Additional analyses suggest that Wordfish requires both longer texts and a more ideologically charged vocabulary in order to produce estimates comparable to Wordscores.

Panamá se encuentra rezagada en materia de protección de datos personales. El reciente intento de aprobar una ley sobre esta materia culminó con un rechazo del proyecto de ley y su envío al órgano ejecutivo para implementar los cambios recomendados durante el proceso legislativo. Este artículo compara el proyecto de ley con diversas legislaciones extranjeras que regulan la protección de datos personales. Si bien el proyecto se convierte en un punto de partida, es necesario reconocer que el mismo carecía de muchos principios comunes que pueden encontrarse en el derecho comparado. Tales falencias que impiden el objetivo que se pretendía alcanzar mediante su aprobación. Por ende, resulta necesario reafirmar las metas y obligaciones de Panamá en la materia y establecer normas que se adecúenlos estándares reconocidos a nivel mundial.

Having access to the vital data collected by government departments can make a huge difference to the work of researchers in universities and charities. But for these researchers to actually access and be able to reuse this data is an often painstaking process that can take months or even longer. Richard Welpton suggests this process might be made quicker and more efficient with a renewed focus on improving data skills and career opportunities. The newly established Safe Data Access Professionals Competency Framework represents an excellent resource for all government departments and organisations looking to share their data safely, securely, efficiently, and effectively.

Aid information management systems (AIMS) are information and communication technology (ICT) applications that enable donors and recipient governments to open and share aid data. Despite the popularity of AIMS and current trends favouring 'open aid', little research has been conducted in the field of ICT in the international aid sector. The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical discussion of AIMS. To achieve these objectives, the study explores 75 AIMS which have been implemented in 70 developing countries over the last two decades. Drawing on the idea of institutional isomorphism, this study offers a historical overview of AIMS and explains their driving forces and evolution. By using content analysis, it also provides an understanding of the main rhetoric inscribed in AIMS and how this has changed over time. In spite of significant attention given to new technologies and heavy investments made in AIMS, many cases have not achieved the anticipated outcomes that the rhetoric of AIMS promised, and even failed to reach sustainability (43%). The analysis enables us to highlight the complexity of problems surrounding AIMS. This calls for a new approach to the way we promote and implement AIMS, as well as more in-depth study to understand institutional and political challenges in each context.

With 94% of US graduate students reportedly using search engines such as Google to perform research tasks, compared to just 18% using databases like EBSCO and 17% using electronic textbooks , the effect of the internet on the future of research cannot be underestimated. The Open Access movement, which began in 2002, links the tradition whereby researchers provide their work to publishers free of charge 'for the sake of inquiry and knowledge' with new technology, to revolutionise scholarly publishing and the ways in which research may be disseminated, discovered and used. For many, this raises concerns over intellectual property and copyright, whilst for others it provides new opportunities to reach a wider audience and collaborate on a global scale. This presentation will provide an opportunity to better understand the reasons behind the Open Access movement, and explore its impact on the research process. This will include a discussion of the positive and negative effects, the ways in which Open Access can be achieved, government initiatives and responses from research stakeholders that may affect the future of scholarly publishing.

Despite the fact that almost all historians today make use of such online tools as Google Books and digitised primary source archives, it is still considered unusual to make computer software a core part of one's methodology for learning about the past. This paper makes the case for the use of digital mapping as a tool which allows and encourages us to ask new questions of long-studied areas of history, and to pass knowledge on to others in new ways. It addresses and answers some criticisms that are commonly presented against digital mapping as a methodology, as well as exploring the benefits of the use of digital maps through the discussion of a previous project carried out by the author, in which a map was made and analysed showing popular political activity in Manchester and its surrounding areas in the 1790s.

Since the reforms took place in 1998, the nation and state of Indonesia experienced changes. These changes require the establishment of good governance, transparent, accountable, and able to answer the changing demands of effective community where people want a public service that is reliable and trustworthy. There are many number of public services provided by the government, among them the land transport licensing services. Although the number of outgoing and incoming vehicles and passengers passing through KM 6 to stretch the urban taxi, AKAP stretch, and stretch AKDP increased, the Department of Transportation, Communication and Information Banjarmasin still running the licensing system by hand. Obviously this condition contrary to the spirit of the 1998 reform. Therefore, the authors propose a land transport system licensing information on Dishubkominfo Banjarmasin. The method used is the waterfall method. The results showed that the information system that meets the business process is built on land transport licensing.