Sentences with phrase «for political research»

March 15, 2016 • Even before he became «BuzzFeed Andrew,» Andrew Kaczynski spent hours a day scouring archives for political research.

An active member of the European Consortium for Political Research section on European Union Politics, she has convened the stream on Diversity, Gender and European Integration at the biannual conferences in Bologna, Istanbul and Riga.

While surveys conducted by both the Centre for Political Research and Studies (CIEP) and the University of Costa Rica (UCR) indicate that while the Costa Rican electorate is happy with Solís» performance in office, they have not repaid his party with substantive support for its candidate.

Not exact matches

In an era where objective information is routinely strangled by political partisans and public - relations departments, central bankers stand out for their commitment to research and rational thought.

«The current protests have to be seen under the wider political regression context,» Steven Blockmans, senior research analyst at the Centre for European Policy Studies told CNBC over the phone.

As a new study from the Shareholder Association for Research and Education shows, some well - known Canadian corporations have been spending on political influence south of the border as well.

It's time for entrepreneurs and business leaders to get involved, because finding creative solutions to these challenges will require not just great political leadership and innovative research, but a transformation of business itself.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Pishevar said he would focus on identifying «who is responsible for spreading false rumors about me» and pursuing a defamation lawsuit he filed in November against political research firm Definers Public Affairs, its founder Matt Rhoades and president Joe Pounder.

Tom Wynn, director of affluent research at Spectrem, provided several factors for the increased confidence: the steady improvement in job growth, the steady increase in the major stock market indices since the spring, and a decrease in political ambiguity with the election season over, which has an effect on at least some people's outlook.

Despite all the fury, political polling accounts for less than 5 % of the revenue of most market research firms.

Japanese government data that was translated for Business Insider by Dr. Nori Katagiri, an assistant professor of political science at Saint Louis University and the inaugural visiting research fellow for the JASDF Air Staff College, shows that China has dramatically increased its naval and aviation activity since 2012 — prior to which there was virtually no activity.

Despite its use of «generic identifiers» for the individuals and entities listed, the DOJ «provided the Court with more than sufficient information to understand the political context of Steele's research,» the memo said.

In a discussion paper published today, the Shareholder Association for Research & Education looked at the question of political spending by Canadian corporations, from an investor perspective.

«If the Russians start backing the Pakistanis in a big way at the political level, then it creates a problem for us,» said Sushant Sareen, a leading expert on India's relations to Pakistan and Afghanistan with New Delhi - based Observer Research Foundation.

And in many ways, FiscalNote does what lobbyists and political research firms have done for decades, though probably for millions of dollars in fees, says Michele Goetz, an analyst specializing in artificial intelligence and government for Forrester.

Just days before the Guardian piece with Walker's statement was published, NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt, who declined to be interviewed again for this story, told Business Insider that he thought NASA climate research was safe from political tampering because it was too intimately connected to the agency's other critical earth science missions.

And now that the time for revisionist history has arrived, and strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are coming in fast and furious, starting with none other than Goldman, whose chief strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year - end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current level of 2140.»

On today's episode, I talk to Tom Webster, Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for Edison Research, the organization behind exit polling for national elections in the U.S.. For more than two decades, Tom has conducted political polling for some of the most contentious elections in U.S. history, as well as market research for some of the top companies across the natifor Edison Research, the organization behind exit polling for national elections in the U.S.. For more than two decades, Tom has conducted political polling for some of the most contentious elections in U.S. history, as well as market research for some of the top companies across theResearch, the organization behind exit polling for national elections in the U.S.. For more than two decades, Tom has conducted political polling for some of the most contentious elections in U.S. history, as well as market research for some of the top companies across the natifor national elections in the U.S.. For more than two decades, Tom has conducted political polling for some of the most contentious elections in U.S. history, as well as market research for some of the top companies across the natiFor more than two decades, Tom has conducted political polling for some of the most contentious elections in U.S. history, as well as market research for some of the top companies across the natifor some of the most contentious elections in U.S. history, as well as market research for some of the top companies across theresearch for some of the top companies across the natifor some of the top companies across the nation.

Calls for new digital privacy rights in American law have increased after disclosures that the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica obtained data on more than 87 million Facebook users from quizzes that were supposed to be for academic research.

Coming of Age in the Asian Century: The Need for a National Conversation By Sarah Eaton, Post ‐ Graduate Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Political pundits tell us this federal election will be fought not over big ideas but along a narrow set of economic wedge issues.

The Silicon Valley companies have been under scrutiny for months for the way they collect and use people's data, with Facebook reeling from revelations that the political research firm Cambridge Analytica harvested the personal information of up to 87 million of its users.

Nanya Springer is associate director of the Center for Political Accountability and is responsible for working with our shareholder partners, engaging the corporate community, and overseeing research projects including the annual CPA - Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability.

In fact, we've known most of the details concerning CA's massive data research, and the use of that research in political campaigns, for several years thanks to a 2015 Guardian article, a viral 2016 article in Das Magazin (later published by Vice), and a March 2017 article by the Intercept.

Political Economy Research I am travelling in Europe for three weeks to discuss the global financial crisis with government officials, politicians and labor leaders.

This week, Mr. Trump and his allies seized on the fact that Democrats had paid the firm for the research as evidence that the dossier was part of a political smear campaign.

The Chinese missile project «was one of the things that really made people say «Turkey is shifting, wow,»» said Mehmet Soylemez, an Asian studies specialist at the Institute for Social and Political Researches, an independent research group in Ankara.

Reacting to revelations that the political research and consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained Facebook user data for the purpose of influencing voters in multiple countries, the Internet Society called it «the natural outcome of today's data driven economy that puts businesses and others first, not users» and called for «higher standards for transparency and ethics when it comes to the handling of our information.

ARI is a national, not - for - profit, non-partisan public opinion research foundation established to advance education by commissioning, conducting and disseminating to the public accessible and impartial statistical data, research and policy analysis on economics, political science, philanthropy, public administration, domestic and international affairs and other socio - economic issues of importance to Canada and its world.

He brought on the veteran investigative reporters Carl Bernstein and James Steele to write for CNN's website and appear on TV and poached BuzzFeed's four - person investigative political - research team, «K - File,» led by Andrew Kaczynski.

Lawyers for President Trump's attorney Michael Cohen withdrew defamation lawsuits late Wednesday against BuzzFeed and the political research firm Fusion GPS related to a dossier that included claims Cohen helped organize Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election.

ACC Accounting & Auditing, AFR Africa, AGE Economics of Ageing, AGR Agricultural Economics, ARA Arab World, BAN Banking, BEC Business Economics, CBA Central Banking, CBE Cognitive & Behavioural Economics, CDM Collective Decision - Making, CFN Corporate Finance, CIS Confederation of Independent States, CMP Computational Economics, CNA China, COM Industrial Competition, CSE Economics of Strategic Management, CTA Contract Theory & Applications, CUL Cultural Economics, CWA Central & Western Asia, DCM Discrete Choice Models, DEM Demographic Economics, DEV Development, DGE Dynamic General Equilibrium, ECM Econometrics, EDU Education, EEC European Economics, EFF Efficiency & Productivity, ENE Energy Economics, ENT Entrepreneurship, ENV Environmental Economics, ETS Econometric Time Series, EUR Microeconomics European Issues, EVO Evolutionary Economics, EXP Experimental Economics, FDG Financial Development & Growth, FIN Finance, FMK Financial Markets, FOR Forecasting, GEO Economic Geography, GRO Economic Growth, GTH Game Theory, HAP Economics of Happiness, HEA Health Economics, HIS Business, Economic & Financial History, HME Heterodox Microeconomics, HPE History & Philosophy of Economics, HRM Human Capital & Human Resource Management, IAS Insurance Economics, ICT Information & Communication Technologies, IFN International Finance, IND Industrial Organization, INO Innovation, INT International Trade, IPR Intellectual Property Rights, IUE Informal & Underground Economics, KNM Knowledge Management & Knowledge Economy, LAB Labour Economics, LAM Central & South America, LAW Law & Economics, LMA Labor Markets - Supply, Demand & Wages, LTV Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty, MAC Macroeconomics, MFD Microfinance, MIC Microeconomics, MIG Economics of Human Migration, MKT Marketing, MON Monetary Economics, MST Market Microstructure, NET Network Economics, NEU Neuroeconomics, OPM Open Macroeconomics, ORE Operations Research, PBE Public Economics, PKE Post Keynesian Economics, POL Positive Political Economics, PPM Project, Program & Portfolio Management, PUB Public Finance, REG Regulation, RES Resource Economics, RMG Risk Management, SBM Small Business Management, SEA South East Asia, SOC Social Norms & Social Capital, SOG Sociology of Economics, SPO Sports & Economics, TID Technology & Industrial Dynamics, TRA Transition Economics, TRE Transport Economics, TUR Tourism Economics, UPT Utility Models & Prospect Theory, URE Urban & Real Estate Economics.

There are a variety of reasons for this gap in understanding: The time gap between discovery research and the translation of that discovery into a therapeutic or a commercial product can take decades, and public and political attention spans are short; the natural human inclination is to pay more attention to things that don't work rather than things that do.

The memo argues the dossier became the basis for the surveillance of Page, the conclusion being that the entire Russia investigation is based on dubious political opposition research.

But Kogan's academic association with Facebook, around the same time that he was taking data to hand off to Cambridge Analytica, raises questions about how user consent was obtained, the line between academic research and corporate marketing — and how scholars can sometimes use data for commercial and political ends.

He has written on political, economic and cultural issues for the Liberty magazine, the Mises Institute (USA), Mises Institute (Canada), Casey Research, International Man, Mining Journal, Zero Hedge, Lew Rockwell, the Dollar Vigilante, Fraser Institute, Le Québécois Libre, Mauldin Economics, Northern Miner, Mining Markets etc..

On the other hand, «private» opinion research conducted for large corporations, special interest groups and political parties is booming.

Nadège Rolland named Senior Project Director for Political and Security Affairs at The National Bureau of Asian Research (September 17 2014)

«From a political perspective, the goal of the start - up visas is to demonstrate they're bringing in the sexiest, highest - value people,» said Madeleine Sumption, assistant director for research at the Washington - based Migration Policy Institute, who has studied start - up visa programs worldwide.

Analysts at Barclays Research said in a report: «The worst - case scenario has been avoided in Cyprus, but we think the risks on the euro remain to the downside, due to the negative implications for the banking sector, political uncertainty in Italy and a sluggish growth outlook.»

For instance, a 2014 Pew Research study found that Americans are less likely to vote for an atheist presidential candidate than any other survey category — even if they share that candidate's political vieFor instance, a 2014 Pew Research study found that Americans are less likely to vote for an atheist presidential candidate than any other survey category — even if they share that candidate's political viefor an atheist presidential candidate than any other survey category — even if they share that candidate's political views.

Some research of my own on the issue quickly revealed a well - prepared social and political agenda for bringing those proposals to fruition.

There is enough here for you to find a career provided our pro tern political leaders will transform themselves into statesmen, encourage indigenous research, inhibit consumerist hi - tech, and put your talent to developmental projects based on appropriate technology, not multinational gluttony.

More Americans want more religion in politics, according to a new Pew Research Center study exploring the «growing appetite» for churches endorsing political candidates and other intersections of church and state.

While it maybe be true that large pools of institutional money are better at buying political favors, influencing scientific research, and swaying foreign governments, it has always been known and is frequently demonstrated that individuals always do better at loving and caring for other individuals, tend to be wiser stewards of money, and view their giving and service toward others as a means of actually helping them, rather than a means to gain political power or popular prestige.

In a survey of Presbyterian laity, for example, two - thirds agreed strongly with the statement that «peacemaking is not simply «another political issue» but is a basic aspect of the Christian faith» (Research Division of the Support Agency, Presbyterian Panel, January, 1982).

What really happened in these countries has been analyzed by a number of persons, including Keith Griffin (in The Political Economy of Agrarian Change) and the staff at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (cf. Andrew Pearse's Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Want).

Certainly some evangelical groups — the Signpost Research Centre, for example — have engaged the political debate in South Africa in such a way as advertently or inadvertently to lend support to the morally odious system of apartheid.

Donald T. Critchlow's impressively researched Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism, a narrative of Schlafly's political career, explains that it was this unyielding quality of hers — her resolute refusal to cultivate the intellectual and cultural elites of either coast, even the conservative intellectual and cultural elites who were her natural ideological allies — that provided the astonishing power that she managed to wield in American politics for more than three decades.

Recent publicized efforts to repathologize homosexuality by claiming that it can be cured are often guided not by rigorous scientific or psychiatric research, but sometimes by religious and political forces opposed to full civil rights for gay men and lesbians.»