Legislative Calendars and Workload Management in Texas
There is a well-developed normative model of how state legislatures ought to use calendars to make the management of their workloads more efficient. State legislatures that follow the normative model identify more and less important bills. Presumably, major and minor bills are treated differently--but are they? This study desegregates the agenda of the Texas Legislature into unimportant, less important, and more important bills as defined by bill placement on calendars. There are systematic differences in the way bills of varying importance are treated. Moreover, the differences are consistent with the contention that calendars can facilitate the more efficient management of legislative workloads.
Bill History Analysis: A Probability Model of the State Legislative Process
The analysis of recorded votes in legislative bodies is staple fare for the political scientist.1 Now that techniques of roll call analysis have been well developed,2 with published roll call votes easily accessible and the floor of the legislature quite often seen as a locus of significant decision-making, this approach has been applied to a wide range of institutional settings. By convention, unanimous votes and those in which less than 10 percent of the members dissented are excluded from such analyses.3 The remaining votes are treated in one of two ways: the researcher either groups them into categories depending on the subject matter of the bill in question, which may be ambiguous; or he allows the bills to sort themselves out as part of the analysis.4 In either case the assumption is made that the particular set of bills being examined are either representative of all bills or of a large and meaningful subset of bills. But some roll call data is either unavailable or unusable because it does
La participacion de los stakeholders en las iniciativas de branding del hospital en las redes sociales: una propuesta de modelo para construir marcas colectivas
Introduction : All health organizations face many managerial and economic challenges such as the consolidation of private and international hospitals, the increasingly interest of society for health education issues or the development of telemedicine. In this framework, many organizations prioritize social media as the main corporate communication tool for building a reputed brand in a collective way along with stakeholders. Objectives : This paper aims to identify a communication model allowing hospitals to efficiently apply branding initiatives on social media in order to build a brand in a collective way with stakeholders. Methodology : We carried out a literature review about corporate communication, health communication, branding and social media; and, then, we proposed the PET Model for Branding Hospitals on Social Media. Results and Conclusion : We conclude that hospitals should create a multidisciplinar corporate communication department, implement management initiatives for allowing health professionals have more time for using social media and integrate health education and patient’s empowerment in every communication initiative.