Sentences with phrase «favored policy outcome»

Rather than seek to marshal public sentiment, or even quite build public support, all sides have wanted to claim a preexisting bedrock of widely shared attitudes backing their favored policy outcome.

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Wealthy contributors helping their favored candidates win elections would not systemically skew politics or policy outcomes if these well - heeled donors were like the rest of us, if on average they had the same life experiences, opinions about issues, and political views as average - earning citizens.
A suspicion thus gains ground that the way in which the I.P.C.C. synthesizes, generalizes and checks its findings may systematically favor adverse outcomes in a way that goes beyond just serving the needs of policy makers.
Stephen H. Schneider, the Stanford climatologist I've been interviewing since 1988 on this issue, has long favored pursuing climate policies that reflect the overall reality that the risk of bad outcomes rises with gas concentrations:
Access and policy outcomes sold through the State Department; party officials rigging the Democratic primaries for Hillary Clinton; and harassment of legal businesses, such as gun dealers and consumer lenders, because their products are not in favor of the political establishment.
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