- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Innovation and Knowledge Management
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Corporate Finance and Governance
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Media Studies and Communication
- Social Capital and Networks
- Local Government Finance and Decentralization
- Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Social Media and Politics
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Media Influence and Politics
- International Development and Aid
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
Columbia University
2013-2023
University of Colorado Denver
2008
This paper attempts to empirically test whether inter-party political differences impact public finances in Portugal differently. Focused on debt and government budget deficit, using data since 1974 for several variables, this applies econometric modelling show that have had, until now, no significant impacts the finances’ performance Portugal. In context, aims at dispelling some myths regarding ‘value’ of a policy process based intrigue, enmity discourse confrontation around differentiated...
Using the example of Portuguese language at United Nations, this article argues that planning matters. More specifically, without proper status planning, present political discourse aiming making official Nations (UN) has very limited probabilities being successful. This applies a policy and (LPP) theoretical framework uses qualitative research methods to identify set key variables may help bridge with goal. In sense, authors propose agenda toward design strategy for within context most...
How should we measure the impact of investigative journalism? Media scholars and practitioners have turned their attention towards understanding causal effect media reports on a range social, political economic outcomes. Their interest has been spurred by increased availability data, emergence new tools for rigorously assessing effects pressure from donors interested in returns investments journalism programmes. Drawing literature multiple disciplines, propose multi-faceted metric which...
Subjects change frequently in moderated debates with several participants, such as parliamentary sessions, electoral debates, and trials. Partitioning a debate into blocks the same subject is essential for understanding. Often moderator responsible defining when new block begins so that task of automatically partitioning can focus solely on moderator's behavior. In this paper, we (i) propose algorithm, DEBACER, which partitions debates; (ii) carry out comparative study between conventional...
Subjects change frequently in moderated debates with several participants, such as parliamentary sessions, electoral debates, and trials. Partitioning a debate into blocks the same subject is essential for understanding. Often moderator responsible defining when new block begins so that task of automatically partitioning can focus solely on moderator's behavior. In this paper, we (i) propose algorithm, DEBACER, which partitions debates; (ii) carry out comparative study between conventional...
This article argues that a diffusion of innovations model can be employed together with complexity theory in the construction conceptual framework to explain skilled migrants' (SMs) behavior and patterns (re)integration, either their homeland or host country. applied identify distinguish between those aspects institutional structure favor hinder SMs' entrepreneurial aspirations. Empirical results derived from this enrich lessons learned experiences prompt adoption policies personal...