428 research outputs found

    Introduction:Global un-governance

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    ICU nurses’ burnout, organizational commitment, turnover intention and hospital workplace violence: A study in Sichuan province, China

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    The study aims to research the relationship between burnout, organizational commitment and turnover intention. Additionally, hospital workplace violence and its influencing factors were also explored. A quantitative analysis was conducted with a survey of 305 ICU nurses in tertiary hospitals in Sichuan Province, China. The results reveal that (1) burnout is positively related to turnover intention; (2) organizational commitment is negatively correlated with turnover intention; (3) organizational commitment negatively moderates the effect of emotional exhaustion on turnover intention; (4) continuance commitment has a negative moderation effect on the relationship between emotional exhaustion on turnover intention; and (5) 77.7% of ICU nurses have experienced hospital workplace violence, among which professional title, gender, length of service and employment form are contributors.O estudo tem como objetivo pesquisar a relação entre burnout, compromisso organizacional e intenção de turnover. AlĂ©m disso, a violĂȘncia no ambiente de trabalho hospitalar e seus fatores influenciadores tambĂ©m foram explorados. Uma anĂĄlise quantitativa foi realizada com uma pesquisa de 305 enfermeiros de ICU em hospitais terciĂĄrios na provĂ­ncia de Sichuan, na China. Os resultados revelam que (1) o burnout estĂĄ positivamente relacionado Ă  intenção de turnover; (2) compromisso organizacional estĂĄ negativamente correlacionado com a intenção de turnover; (3) compromisso organizacional modera negativamente o efeito do esgotamento emocional sobre a intenção de turnover; (4) compromisso de continuidade tem um efeito negativo de moderação na relação entre exaustĂŁo emocional na intenção de turnover; e (5) 77,7% dos enfermeiros da ICU sofreram violĂȘncia hospitalar no local de trabalho, para a qual o tĂ­tulo profissional, o gĂȘnero, o tempo de serviço e a forma de emprego sĂŁo contribuintes

    Transferring prisoners within the EU framework: its cosmopolitan reflections and existing European detention norms

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    A perverse side-effect of our interconnected world is that also crime crosses more and more borders. As a result, judicial cooperation in criminal matters is crucial before and after a criminal sentence. The increased global connectivity also gave rise to new paradigms in social sciences. As such, the paradigm of cosmopolitanism has been researched extensively in social sciences but has been largely neglected in criminology. By analyzing case law, European detention norms and EU legal instruments the submission critically evaluates cosmopolitanism in the area of EU judicial cooperation in criminal matters and more specifically to the transfer of prisoners. Cosmopolitanism is perfectly reflected in the mutual recognition principle as the cornerstone to develop the EU area of freedom, security and justice, based on notions of equivalence and trust. This principle is justified because every member state signed the European Convention of Human Rights and is a party of the EU Charter on Human Rights. On the other hand, reality revealed that mutual recognition is not absolute and mutual trust cannot be blind. An IRCP study, published in 2011, highlighted the various and often detrimental material prison conditions in different member states. These variances undermine the assumed mutual trust between member states although European detention norms - such as the European Prison Rules and CPT reports’ already exist. These norms aren’t legally binding and are still considered as “soft law”, simultaneously they gain importance due to increased reference in the ECtHR judgments. The cosmopolitan outlook by the member states related to the transfer of prisoners is in this submission highlighted as being both problematic and promising. Hereby it appears as if the EU rhetoric being a “unity in diversity”, by applying mutual recognition, is dominantly used to accommodate member states purposes rather than giving a central role to the individual

    Abolishing the Evidence-Based Paradigm

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    The belief that policies and procedures should be data-driven and “evidence-based” has become criminal law’s leading paradigm for reform. This evidence-based paradigm, which promotes quantitative data collection and empirical analysis to shape and assess reforms, has been widely embraced for its potential to cure the emotional and political pathologies that led to mass incarceration. It has influenced reforms across the criminal procedure spectrum, from predictive policing through actuarial sentencing. The paradigm’s appeal is clear: it promises an objective approach that lets data – not politics – lead the way and purports to have no agenda beyond identifying effective, efficient reforms. This Article challenges the paradigm’s core claims. It shows that the evidence-based paradigm’s objectives, its methodology, and its epistemology advance conventional assumptions about what the criminal legal system should strive to achieve, whom it should target, and whose voices and interests matter. In other words, the evidence-based paradigm is political, and it does have an agenda. And that agenda, informed by neoliberalism and the enduring legacy of white supremacy in the criminal legal system, strengthens – rather than challenges – the existing system. The Article argues that, if left unchallenged, the evidencebased paradigm will continue to reproduce the system’s disparities and dysfunctions, under the veneer of scientific objectivity. Thus, it must be abolished and replaced with a new approach that advances a true paradigm shift about the aims of criminal legal reform and the role and definition of data and empiricism in advancing that vision

    Concept and measurement of political risk: from theory to practice

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    Concepts, definitions, challenges. Rating methodologies and the Arab Spring: a comparative analysis. Operationalization. The role of expert judgment.Concepts, definitions, challenges. Rating methodologies and the Arab Spring: a comparative analysis. Operationalization. The role of expert judgment.LUISS PhD Thesi

    The use of social media in marketing musicians : focus on independent music management companies

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    The digital era has brought great changes in the music industry and to the importance of the traditional set up of major labels and the independent labels. The digitalization of music and the rise of the social media has enabled individual musicians and various forms of independent music companies to succeed and grow their markets. The topic of this master thesis is the use of social media in marketing musicians focusing on the expert interviews from independent management companies. The purpose is to understand better the approach of the independent management companies on musicians and how the social media strategies are built to gain recognition and popularity. The research is divided into three sub-questions: which social media channels are used in promotion of musicians and what is their nature, how content can be used to get better engagement with fans and how social interaction can build partnerships to create new opportunities through social media? The theoretical background is built through the three sub-questions. Firstly, we are observing what kind of social media channels there are, how the right channel is chosen and how marketing objectives and positioning influence the choice of channel. Secondly, the different types of content are explored, what is the benefit of creating content and the different categorization of them. Thirdly, the effectuation theory is examined to study how the musicians can use social interaction to create new opportunities. The data is collected through semi-structured interviews from three Berlin based independent management companies who represent various number of musicians internationally. This study is a qualitative research using the grounded theory to build a better understanding on the topic, which doesn’t have a strong base from earlier research. The results of this study show that the independent management companies use the mainstream social media channels, which are Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Youtube and they each have an individual nature to be approached with. The content created for musicians are music, photos, videos and playlists that can improve engagement though personalization, scheduling and optimization. The new business opportunities through social interaction are mainly build with other artists, brands and charities. The key is to understand what are the means the musicians can use and what risks and losses are they willing to take in pursuing these opportunities. Overall, the marketing of musicians using social media seems to have established practices from independent management company point of view, however the practices evolve mainly around the mainstream social media
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