Academic literature on the topic 'Sponsorship decision-making'

Along with individuals’ ideological factors, various network properties play a crucial role in the process of legislators’ political decision-making. Social networks among legislators provide relational resources through which communication occurs, exerting social influence among the members in a network. This chapter examines six social relationships among the members of the 109th United States Senate as predictors of senatorial voting (roll call votes), (1) shared committees, (2) co-sponsorships, (3) party membership, (4) PAC donation, (5) geographical contiguity, and (6) internet hyperlinks, which may be considered as direct or indirect representations of communication networks. The six networks are modeled using MRQAP. Results suggest that roll call voting was predicted by party membership, co-sponsorship, geographical proximity, and PAC donation networks, while shared committee membership did not contribute significantly. As for hyperlinks, the result was mixed, showing a small variance of contribution in a simpler model but not significant with more complex models. Suggestions for future research are addressed.

Nursing homes are increasingly the place where many older, frail adults with multiple comorbidities and varying levels of disability and cognitive impairment live out the final stages of their lives Adopting a palliative approach optimizes these older people’s functional capacity, maintains dignity, minimizes discomfort and suffering, and attends to the family’s supportive care needs. A palliative approach helps to optimize the quality of life for older people with any life-limiting condition, and their families, by reducing suffering through early identification, impeccable assessment, and treatment of pain and physical, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual needs. Initiating a palliative approach on a person’s admission into a nursing home ensures that the symptoms they experience don’t go undetected or undertreated, and any progressive illness needs, disability, impaired communication, or dementia is acknowledged and addressed. Embedding a palliative approach into nursing homes requires changes at the consumer, provider, and systems levels. The Innovative Care for Chronic Conditions Framework assists nursing homes to systematically address these challenges by focusing on (1) policies that promote the delivery of a palliative approach and the executive support and sponsorship required to embed the changes; (2) building the workforce’s geriatric and palliative care capabilities; (3) fostering collaborative partnerships across care settings to better meet the needs of residents; (4) promoting access to decision support tools; (5) increasing access to clinical information systems, including point-of-care evidence, electronic health records, and electronic prescribing systems; and (6) actively engaging residents with capacity and their families in care planning and decision-making.

Social media has changed our day to day life in so many aspects, and especially with COVID19 forcing people to stay at home, the use of the internet and platforms has increased dramatically. We now use social media for communication, learning, entertainment, and even for work purposes. There has been a significant increase in the number of people on all social media platforms, and this increase in the number of users viewing all sorts of content gave rise to influencers or “leaders of opinion”, i.e. experts in certain fields with many followers viewing their content. Influencers in many cases

As a result of the refugee reception crisis in 2015 the advocacy for increasing resettlement numbers in the overall refugee protection framework has gained momentum, as has research on resettlement to the EU. While the UNHCR purports resettlement as a durable solution for the international protection of refugees, resettlement programmes to the European Union are seen as a pillar of the external dimension of the EU’s asylum and migration policies and management. This paper presents and discusses the literature regarding the value transmissions taking place within these programmes. It reviews li